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Article #1081Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: David Kastrup
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00
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phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut) writes: > Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes: > > >Producing software does not require as extensive an education as doing > >science, and doing it for profit has been historically an established > >practice. Therefore if software were subsidized, its likelihood of > >attracting profiteers who want to manipulate the subsidies to their > >own ends would be more like that of agriculture than like that of > >science, which is mostly full of people who have chosen to devote > >their lives to non-monetary goals. > > Science is also full of people who strive for patents and third-party > support. On the other hand, open-source software is currently being created > for idealistic purposes only. Or do you know of anyone producing it for > profit? Cygnus, The Open Group (X11), Netscape, RedHat, Adaptec (new drivers from them for Linux), Corel Computing (with its NetWinder products) spring to mind immediately. Sorry for just mentioning a few. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570 Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fax: +49-234-709-4209 Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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