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Article #1144Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: Tim Smith
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00
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Jason Clifford <jason@ukpost.com> wrote: >> Make electronic money a reality, so that free software programmers can >> earn money the way treet musicians do: by collecting a penny for each >> web hit on their site. Benevolent users would be glad to afford this. > >There is a serious flaw in your proposal. Very often I go to a developers >web site and even download the software only to discover that it is not a >very good solution. I then delete the software. Why should I pay for >visiting his web site or downloading software that I do not use? First, you'd go to the site of a software reviewer you trust (getting nicked for a penny to read the latest reviews), and then you'd only go to developer sites that got favorable reviews. --Tim Smith
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