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

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From: Axel Boldt
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00

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Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes:

> Economic viability for open source only requires that the software
> market become a service economy rather than a commodity
> economy. 

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.

Axel

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From: Axel Boldt <axel@uni-paderborn.de>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/13
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