Z:gnu-www-ja-pragmatic--879b52-The programmers who write impr/en

The programmers who write improvements to GCC (or Emacs, or Bash, or Linux, or any GPL-covered program) are often employed by companies or universities. When the programmer wants to return his improvements to the community, and see his code in the next release, the boss may say, &ldquo;Hold on there&mdash;your code belongs to us! We don't want to share it; we have decided to turn your improved version into a proprietary software product.&rdquo;