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

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From: David Kastrup
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:00

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fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) writes:

> 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!

It seems you don't know Monty Python's "Meaning of Life" (?, back
translated from the German title) then.

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From: David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/15
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