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From: Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?)
Date: 1999/04/24
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com> writes:
> In article <371F8B02.9BD7045F@spam.com>,
>   Glen <SpamSpam@spam.com> wrote:
> > Could someone on GNU.MISC.DISCUSS please read the
> > threads, and pick up, this is the reality of commercial
> > development of GPL - proprietory versions !!
> 
> The GPL and the notion of proprietary software are
> fundamentally incompatible. No versions of GNAT for
> example are, or could be proprietary.
> 
> You must be using proprietary in an exceedingly unusual
> sense, different from how most people use the term.
> 
> Indeed the whole point of the GPL is to avoid the
> disadvantages of the proprietary model of software.

Glen, apparently, lacks the proper vocabulary to engage in a proper
discussion.  Perhaps I can help here...

The correct word is "hoarding".  And, yes, the GPL allows hoarding.
Stallman doesn't think that if you distribute GPL'd source code to
person A that you must also distribute it to person B if he asks.

Remember the joke about the difference between a slut and a bitch?
A slut puts out for everyone and a bitch puts out for everyone but you.
The GPL allows one to be a bitch.

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