GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

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> Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 12:48:50 -0700
> From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd at echeque.com>
> Subject: RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)

> Except for police intervention, anyone is free to buy coke
> from dealers affiliated with the Crips, affiliated with the
> Bloods, or affiliated with any one of several smaller
> providers of such services.

Really? I dare you to wear the colors of a Crip and then sell in the Bloods
neighborhood.

> Generally competition between these groups mostly resembles
> the competition between Visa and Mastercard with shoot outs
> being the exception rather than the rule.  Shootouts are bad
> for business.=20

Somebody should tell them this then since they certainly don't operate that
way in the real world.


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