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Subject: Re: The desktop apathy?  I think not.
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Brett Glass wrote:
> >GPL software doesn't
> >kill technically superior products the way MS does.
> 
> Not so. GCC has killed many technically superior compilers.

Had gcc been under a BSD license, it would have been just as deadly. 
Sure, a company could have made proprietary changes to it, and tried to
sell it, but who would buy it?  Or, to put it another way, how much
could they have charged for it and still sell some?  The fate of BSDi
shows how difficult it is to sell proprietary versions of BSD-licensed
software (at least on commodity hardware).

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