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- From: mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software II
- Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:29:13 GMT
- Organization: Novell, Inc.
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- References: <C1CD82.4Gt@news2.cis.umn.edu> <C1FBoE.Gy6@news2.cis.umn.edu> <KJJ.93Jan27125151@pondscum.phx.mcd.mot.com> <mwalker-270193172005@mwalker.npd.provo.novell.com> <1993Jan28.081921.867@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- In article <1993Jan28.081921.867@klaava.Helsinki.FI>,
- laakkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Laakkonen) wrote:
- >
- > In <mwalker-270193172005@mwalker.npd.provo.novell.com> mwalker@novell.com (Mel Walker) writes:
- >
- > >Sure you can demand it. Whether or not anybody listens.... of course, there
- > >are no garuantees with GCC, either in this respect.
- >
- > ... in practice it turns out that GNU people listen to these
- > "demands" more readily.
-
- In my experience many for-profit corporations listen to demands at least as
- readily as GNU. Several of these respond to demands even more readily,
- especially if the company is not a big, bloated one. Smaller companies that
- have been around for a while generally seem to have good reactions to user
- feedback that is sent to them. This, of course, is only my experience. It
- could vary widely from other people's.
-
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