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From: steve_kilbane@ceg... steve_kilbane@ceg...
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 12:31:58 +0100
On 21/09/98 10:43:54 Elliott Hughes wrote:
> and then there's the catch-22: the enticement of having users. no-one
likes to write
> software to push it to the back of their disc to rot (though i do wonder
sometimes),
> and the one place where you can be sure of users is the free world. if
you can't
> give your code away for free to run on a free platform, you're going to
have fewer
> users than if you could.
Hmm. kernel hacks, maybe, but surely there wasn't any restriction on
distributing brand new applications, or those ported to Plan 9?
steve