Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Donal K. Fellows
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <g4h107.3i.ln@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>,
Mark Evans  <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> wrote:
> David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> [2] USS Yorktown aside. :-) If we ever go to war with the 'merkins, I'm
> 
> The USS Yorktown appears to be an example of what happens when MS sell
> their product to admirals in their normal way. Just that it's a whole
> lot more dangerous to put an unreliable computer system on a warship
> than in an office block.

That's only natural.  Office blocks aren't supposed to sail the high seas!

Donal.
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From: fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/15
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