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At 10:54 PM 2/23/99 +0200, Narvi wrote:
 
>c) What's the reason? MS can always hire n more programmers to write the
>exact same code without major delay.

Not only that: They can clean-room it, which is easier if the code is
subtle. The GPL isn't any protection at all from a big company. It
only hurts SMALL independent developers.

--Brett


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