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From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>
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Subject: Re: The desktop apathy?  I think not.
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In-Reply-To: <3B170339.C1F6ED0A@mail.ptd.net>; from tms2@mail.ptd.net on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:51:37PM -0400
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Thomas M. Sommers said on May 31, 2001 at 22:51:37:
> 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).

For that matter, consider SSH's problems with OpenSSH.  

R

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