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Article #1067Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: Maciej Stachowiak
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00
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> I think the record of The Market in providing high-quality > open-source information proves it to be even more inept than > government bureaucracies of the worst kind, let alone well-proven > organisations like the FSF. The FSF is _part of_ the market. So are companies like Red Hat and Cygnus, and organizations like Debian. "The Market" does not necessarily mean that everyone maximizes cash earnings, just that everyone maximizes utility. The reason Open Source is only now seeing a resurgence in the market is because until recently, the transaction costs of cooperation have been too high for most to allow the full potential of open source development to be leveraged. - 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: 10e97a,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gid10e97a,public X-Google-Thread: fa692,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa692,public X-Google-Thread: fea0e,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfea0e,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome) Date: 1998/10/12 Message-ID: <v8wyaql4iq2.fsf@huis-clos.mit.edu> X-Deja-AN: 400525017 Sender: mstachow@huis-clos.mit.edu References: <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <907546762snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <v8wk92dflo7.fsf@huis-clos.mit.edu> <361BD7FC.1650DBCF@ameritechREMOVETHIS.net> <F0I5I0.2AJ@a2e.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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