Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Tue Sep 20 2005 11:47 am

In article <jrGdnetaxJnASrPeRVn-3Q@giganews.com>, 
Reply@NewsGroup.Please says...

> The ones in it for the glory seem to have been those who were
> wealthy enough not to need a paycheck. There weren't that many
> of those. (The woman who invented the dishwasher springs to mind,
> but having provided herself with an adequate tool to wash her
> valuable dishes safely, further development seems to have been
> purely profit-motivated. That suggests the #2 reason to invent:
> solve a problem for yourself; this moves the profit motive to
> the "futher development" side of inventing.)

Hence the unfinished state of so much freeware.

- Gerry Quinn

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