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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Borland and other proprietary bloodsuckers (Was: Re: BISON, GCC, and the GNU public license.)
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Date: 8 Aug 89 14:14:07 GMT
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Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article , limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
> Bing!  When Borland started out, they were charging a *lot* of money
> for royalties...

I didn't know that, but it still supports my point. Market forces work,
and things like the GNU copyleft don't... unless your goal is political
change rather than getting the best software out to the most people and
still making a living.
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