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Date:      Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:26:21 -0800
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, dyson@iquest.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act 
Message-ID:  <199902240626.WAA09093@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:01:50 MST." <4.1.19990223140048.04015de0@mail.lariat.org> 

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I mean if big companies can steal code from each other whats going to prevent
something like Microsoft who at least in a couple of incidents have been
proven in court "stealing" code .

If only  the GPL could license "thought:" or ideas we could actually move 
closer to "1984".

	Cheers,
	Amancio

> At 10:54 PM 2/23/99 +0200, Narvi wrote:
>  
> >c) What's the reason? MS can always hire n more programmers to write the
> >exact same code without major delay.
> 
> Not only that: They can clean-room it, which is easier if the code is
> subtle. The GPL isn't any protection at all from a big company. It
> only hurts SMALL independent developers.
> 
> --Brett
> 
> 
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