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Posted by: Chris Rankin (Thursday 14 April 2005, 10:13 PM)

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Enough with the "Communism" nonsense, Mr McCarthy. The GPL is about *sharing*, not taking. You are allowed to use other people's valuable GPL code in return for releasing your modifications under the GPL too. Quid pro quo. If you don't want to release your code under the GPL then you are welcome not to use GPL code as a starting point.

And businesses *are* waking up to the value of GPL code. Take Tivo and LinkSys, for example.

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