From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/07/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 254991214 References: <5pb8gf$j4m@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <5pim4l$5m3$1@news.nyu.edu> <5pmg6e$nai$1@Venus.mcs.net> <5pmiuv$2f1@camel4.mindspring.com> <5pn2h2$sjg$1@Venus.mcs.net> <5pn64f$5vq@camel1.mindspring.com> Organization: New York University Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Isaac says <<'Course none of this gets an outside the code he wants. In this sense there is no difference. I wouldn't call this philosophical though... >> I would say "thinks he wants" rather than "he wants". What people really want is two things: 1. The absolutely latest and greatest version with all the latest fixes 2. They want this version to work reliably And that's the rub. I well remember a small group of firebrands screaming at IBM for "delaying" the release of OS/2 version 3.0. When it was finally released, guess what, it was the same group that was screaming at IBM for all the bugs that they found in the 3.0 release when it finally appeared :-)