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GPL advocates do not care if GPL'd software can be made to work in a proprietary business model. It's not our problem. There's no God-given right for proprietary software vendors to make money; they have to compete. And if the rules of the marketplace suddenly change and make it difficult for them, well -- tough. Adapt or die. Don't moan.
-- David Skoll quoted in "Anti-open source 'whitepaper' devastated" By Thomas C Greene, The Register : June, 11 2002. rebuttal to a whitepaper, "Opening the Open Source Debate," by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25659.html
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