GPL Satanism Agan?

[Matthew Benjamin <MBenjamin@comshare.com>]

But, as Eric wrote, people writing _commercial_ software for Linux don't put
their code under the GPL, do they?  

People selling support for free software, like Cygnus, do put their code
under the GPL.

Hmm.  Do I see a pattern developing?


Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Brett Glass [mailto:brett@lariat.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 1998 7:26 PM
To: ericb@pobox.com; Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO
Subject: Re: Petreley on commercial support for non-MS OSes


At 02:02 PM 12/31/98 -0500, Eric M. Bennett wrote:
 
>Even assuming that you are right about the GPL's problems, it would be a
>much different type of threatening and all-absorbing movement.  With the
>GPL, it's people trying to write commercial OSes who are screwed.

Alas, it's people trying to write commericial ANYTHING who are "screwed"
by the GPL. The GPL was intended to hurt those who developed ANY
commercial software. 

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