On 10 Jun 1993 12:56:02 GMT, jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () said:

  jcburt> How about the independent developer? The GPL puts the
  jcburt> greatest burden on the group it *claims* to be
  jcburt> helping. Larger Corporations have no problems with

  jcburt> software. Unfortunately money buys freedom. Also
  jcburt> unfortunately, the GPL, which is supposed to promote "free"
  jcburt> software, does just the opposite with the one group its
  jcburt> supposed to help..the small independent developer.

I don't think the GPL claims to help the independent developer. It
helps the person who wrote *free* software, and who decided to donate
it for the common good. Because it must be very frustrating if you
make a nice piece of software, give it away, don't make any money with
it and see some else is making money with it.

You might say, then that person should not have been so stupid and
also have tried to make money of what he did. Well, if the
contributors to GNU software would have been that 'clever' we wouldn't
have had any of Linux and the tools around it.


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