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Subject: Re: Proposed QPL mods - 3rd try
From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam () yggdrasil ! com>
Date: 1998-12-02 16:38:06
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Warwick Allison writes:
>I also didn't list "flipping burgers" or "making faces in the streets",
>Professional distribution companies could easily out-compete any
>developer trying to do "the service of copying and mailing GNU for a
>fee." (as you'll agree companies like Caldera, RedHat, and SuSE are
>doing very well indeed). It costs $60 to get *just* GNU from the FSF,
>more for organizations. Developers cannot compete at mail-order.
The companies that you list are founded by developers and employing
developers. They are one way that free software developers can and
do make money.
>Yes, I'm glad that you remember that we can each be both free
>software developers *AND* proprietary software developers.
To clarify: We were not arguing about that. I never disputed that.
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