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From: thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG)
Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say?
Date: 1997/06/26
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Samuel Mize <smize@link.com> writes:

> However, company decisions are constraints on what we engineers
> can do.  I can't change the brand of computer we use; I can't
> write Lisp or Forth code for our systems; I can't incorporate
> GPL'd code. At least, I can't do so and still be doing the job
> they're paying me to do.

What you mean is "I choose not to incorporate GPL'd code into my work
so that I can make more money".  This might be a rational choice; but
it is a choice, not anything forced upon you.