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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 28 Jan 1997 23:54:28 -0800
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc.
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References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32EE3C3C.5534B736@indiana.edu> <5clcjd$l34@cynic.portal.ca> <5cmiv4$iuf@garuda.synet.net>
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In article <5cmiv4$iuf@garuda.synet.net>,
Dave Bodenstab <imdave@synet.net> wrote:

>Then why did you add the 500 lines of GPL'ed code?

In fact I didn't, because of the licence. I spent time re-writing
that code that I would have otherwise spent on writing software to
the community. So, due to the GPL, the community lost 500 lines of
free software.

cjs
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