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Article #1059Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: PILCH Hartmut
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00
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Yamashita Shimpei on the history of science funding >As for >"private patrons," many private patrons of centuries past were feudal >noblemen whose income came off of taxes on their own fief--i.e., the >kind of people who don't exist anymore. They are hardly equivalent to, >say, Bill Gates funding scientists today. This is the only place where I might want to contradict you: B.G. is exactly the modern equivalent of a feodal lord. He owns certain parts of public infrastructure and collects taxes. So it is quite logical that he feels some "responsibility" to do something for libraries etc. As did Rockefeller and many other capitalist lords. "Giving back to society" this is called, and it's not necessarily just opportunism. -- Hartmut Pilch http://www.a2e.de/phm/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: fea0e,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfea0e,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10e97a,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gid10e97a,public X-Google-Thread: fa692,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa692,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut) Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome) Date: 1998/10/13 Message-ID: <F0s9qA.7L6@a2e.de> X-Deja-AN: 400929516 References: <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <v8wg1cxy9py.fsf@huis-clos.mit.edu> <xzqbtnle3ap.fsf@uni-paderborn.de> <v8w7ly8nbkh.fsf@M66-080-10.mit.edu> <6vvonr$kgc@gap.cco.caltech.edu> Organization: Asia-Europa Sprachendienste Pilch und Wang Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.society.futures,comp.os.linux.advocacy,uk.politics.misc,uk.politics.economics,gnu.misc.discuss