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

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From: Toon Moene
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:00

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David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:

> 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:

> > > 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.

That's the English title (you mean you watch Monty Python movies in German ? 
Gasp, Choke).

Of course, the important lesson to learn here is that the US Navy assumes 
their ships are like office blocks - a very dangerous assumption, if you'd 
ask me.

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From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
Subject: Re: Society's access to source code (was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/15
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