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List:       mozilla-license
Subject:    Re: RMS Encourages NPL+GPL Software!!!
From:       Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir () cs ! ualberta ! ca>
Date:       1998-03-27 22:48:01
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In article <86g1k5te1g.fsf@coulee.tdb.com> seniorr@teleport.com (Russell Senior) writes:
> You can't win proprietary developers to free software by being
> proprietary-developer-friendly.

How do you win them then, by alientaing them?

> The proprietary developer will simply continue to develop
> proprietary software. No `win' for free software would be involved,
> insofar as proprietary developers are concerned.

Don't you agree that any software wins by simply being used by more
people? Maybe they won't make a lot of substantial contributions, but
at least they'll contribute bug fixes. Whereas if it was GPL, they
wouldn't touch it.

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