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:

> > Maybe it's better to wrestle software creation away from the economic
> > sphere altogether and plant it firmly into the "play and hobby" arena.
> > Market share, deadlines, advertising, licenses become irrelevant, all
> > that matters is fun. 
> >
> > This would be the first step to Bob Black's "Abolition of Work"
> > (http://www.t0.or.at/bobblack/abolishw.htm); he wants to turn all work
> > into play.
> 
> Maybe that will happen once we have cheap matter
> duplicators/synthesizers.

That would help, but there's already a tremendous amount of incredibly
productive technology around. Isn't it the whole point of technology
to do the work for us? Yet, we are still working as much as we did 50
years ago. Something must have gone terribly wrong somewhere.

-- 
 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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