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

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From: Maciej Stachowiak
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:00

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> 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.

 - Maciej Stachowiak

-- 
guile -c '(define c call-with-current-continuation)(define(f s)(lambda(o)(let
((n(c(lambda(x)(o x)x))))(let p((n n)(l(string->list s)))(cond((not (null? l)
)(display(car l))(p(c n)(cdr l))))))))((f"Js nte ul akr")(f"utAohrGieHce\n"))'

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From: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/14
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