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Subject: Re: Linux: how probable is it that it will be relevant in the near future?

Author: Peter Herttrich

Date: 02:49:46 11/12/98

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On November 11, 1998 at 16:17:37, Don Dailey wrote:

>
>There are people making plenty of money selling commercial Linux software.
>When you develop your own commercial software, it is NOT protected by
>GPL and you can do anything you want to protect it or even sell licenses
>to use it and you are NOT obligated to give out source code.
>
>AT our lab we have some of these packages.  There is no way we would
>pay the money we do for "matlab" on linux if we could just download
>it legally somewhere.
>
>So is anyone interested in buying a chess program for linux?


Yes !!
I would buy Fritz or Rebel or (if the price is alittle bit better
then on Window$e) ChessBase. Then I had a reason to kill the remaining
rest of Micro$hit from my machines.


>
>- Don

Peter



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