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From: Olivier.Galibert@mines.u-nancy.fr (Olivier Galibert)
Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say?
Date: 1997/07/04
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In article <5pim4l$5m3$1@news.nyu.edu>, Richard Kenner wrote:
>There's absolutely nothing wrong with pointing out that it's harmful
>to the GNAT community for pre-releases to be widely distributed.  The
>FSF itself (and Richard Stallman personally) has an extremely strong
>similar view about pre-releases of GCC.

With the immediate side effect that most people won't even try to fix
bugs which may already have been fixed. And most of the time don't even
bother to report them because of the "I'll try again in 6 months with
the new release and then I'll see" effect.

I know, I'm one of them.

  OG.