Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: O'Neill
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:00

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On 13 Oct 1998 15:41:13 +0200, David Kastrup
<dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:

>darrow@oneillaw.com (M O'Neill) writes:
>
>> I just don't get it.  If the government collects the taxes, then the
>> government decides who gets paid for writing software.  If you don't
>> think this means the government chooses what gets written, you're
>> naive.
>
>So you mean to say that the same government that forks over the record
>taxes to sex&drugs&rock'n'roll groups has actively chosen that such
>stuff should be written, yet tries to get at the balls of a president
>that seems to have indulged a little bit too much in the sex
>department (though he has probably not inhaled the cigar)?
>

are you referring to the national endowment for the arts?

funding for the NEA amounts to 60 cents per capita in the US.  I
haven't heard of any rock and roll groups receiving NEA grants,
although I suppose it's possible.

the NEA is funded from general tax revenues.  there is no special tax
on records or the like.

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From: darrow@oneillaw.com (O'Neill)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/14
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