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Re: [News] Hexen and Heretic Become Free Software (GNU GPL)

Linonut wrote:

>* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>
>>  Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hexen and Heretic Code Opened Under GPL
>>> 
>>> Another big win for the GPL.
>>
>> Correction: another big win for proprietary software.  If it wasn't for 
>> the company's success with proprietary software, they wouldn't be 
>> releasing old code under GPL.
>
>Then it's a win for both!

Indeed.  There's a place for both in the world,  Original creations
like games are a perfect example of something that is expensive, and
understandably so.

Mature technologies like word processors, on the other hand...


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