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Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 19:11:57 -0400
From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu>
Subject: Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article
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Brett Glass wrote:
> 
> At 03:15 PM 6/8/2001, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> 
> >7) Company decides GPL is sufficiently restricted not to affect
> >windoze market and releases code under GPL.
> 
> And then, possibly, a variation on the progression you mention:
> 
> 8) Company is dismayed to discover that the GPLed version for
> Linux has been ported to Windows and that they're now losing
> revenue on that platform.
>

This is something I have never seen. MBAs tend to think (naively
perhaps?) that the Unix version will never be ported to Windows. I
can't recall an example of this happening (with a commercial product),
it would be a good lesson...MBAs learn by killing companies. 
 
	Pedro.

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