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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: SparcStation 2
Date: 3 May 1995 21:38:42 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Anatoly.Lisovsky@kamaz.kazan.su (Anatoly M. Lisovsky) wrote:
] 
] Ok, fix it and wait new version with the same bug, but your patch
] is not applicable more, so you must remember all bugs fixed by you,
] and investigate for new bugs to fix...
] 
] Thank you, "bugfixer" is not my profession.

So what you are saying is that there is incentive to contribute
your fix back to the community, even without a GPL/LGPL to force
you to do it?

I already knew that...


                                        Terry Lambert
                                        terry@cs.weber.edu
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