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Date:      Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:36:07 -0800
From:      Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New CODA release
Message-ID:  <19990208013607.F27505@orcrist.mediacity.com>
In-Reply-To: <36BE3DEC.433E8A2E@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>; from Pedro F. Giffuni on Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 08:29:16PM -0500
References:  <199902071900.LAA09317@kithrup.com> <36BE1B25.653A5341@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19990207162848.L27505@orcrist.mediacity.com> <36BE3DEC.433E8A2E@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>

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On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 08:29:16PM -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> 
> - From an economical point of view, the GPL has a negative effect over
> capitalism, and will eventually have some effect on employment (I'm not
> kidding, I'll have to write a dissertation about this, but I haven't
> found the time). The BSD license doesn't have this effect.

I don't think it will have a negative effect on employment.  We'll just
have to redefine employment to include net-style work.  The core team
and several others are practically employed for the project anyway,
and the license doesn't appear to make a difference, as people do the
same thing for other free projects such as Linux and Apache.

Greg
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