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Article #1151Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Decklin Foster
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00
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darrow@oneillaw.com (M O'Neill) writes: > So we get down to this: private enterprise should not have the right > to create and profit from software. Instead, we should impose a tax > and let the government decide what software gets produced. This is the exact opposite of what I had been advocating. Let the people decide what software *they* want; not the goverment, and most certainly not software publishing companies. The funding aspect only means that we require the money that would have otherwise fed these companies go to people actually writing things. Do we have do this? No, it's only a suggestion. But as a social contract it would allow us to get rid of proprietary software more easily. We can still work on that without funding, which will probably happen, as people are always resistant to change. -- please read: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ "cry me a bayou/and i'm leaving..." -tricky
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public From: Decklin Foster <decklin@base.org> Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/10/12 Message-ID: <m3r9weilf8.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> X-Deja-AN: 400096394 Sender: decklin@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com References: <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <6uc2pk$jh1$5@blue.hex.net> <HW23dWAEV7F2EwYD@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <907545396snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <D0yWVPAZXJG2Ewin@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <xzqlnmumiur.fsf@uni-paderborn.de> <36213709.6670092@news.concentric.net> Organization: @Home Network X-URL: http://decklin.base.org/ NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 19:07:06 PDT Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss