Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Axel Boldt
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:00

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Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes:

> Any decision forced by one person upon another is immoral. Markets do
> not use force. Many people do not believe this, dredging out examples
> like "But if I want to do Y, the easiest way is to pay X for Z!"
> That's not force. You still have a choice of not doing Y, or of
> finding another way to acquire a substitute for Z

And for precisely the same reason, a hardware tax does not use force.

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 Axel Boldt  **  axel@uni-paderborn.de  **  math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/

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From: Axel Boldt <axel@uni-paderborn.de>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/16
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