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Date:      Sat, 08 Jan 2000 23:09:41 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: license (no longer Re: uptimes, Woo Hoo)
Message-ID:  <38774525.B21CE8FD@newsguy.com>
References:  <200001071413.JAA17543@blackhelicopters.org>

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Michael Lucas wrote:
> 
> But what do *we* get out of it?  Simply the satisfaction of knowing
> your work is in a photocopier's brain?

Well, y'see, if vendor A grabs some of our code to improve his software,
vendor A's competitors, B and C, will also feel compelled to improve
their own software, either by grabbing our code or by developing better
code themselves. The end result is that the software from vendors A, B
and C has been improved.

GPL advocates wants open software. We want better software.

For example, if the TCP/IP stack had been GPLed, we would be using OSI.

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

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