Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Decklin Foster
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00

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Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes:

> Again, it definitely happens in agriculture, which I think might be a
> better model.

How? Agriculture is doing the same, basically unchanged for years,
thing over and over again. Science is making pains *not* to reinvent
the wheel. Which are we?

> In science, it's still largely about whether or not the government
> likes your grant proposal. Listing a great number of military
> applications tends to help proposals

Which is why the citizens (the ones who care about the grant of the
day) should decide. When you have this amorphous entity "the
government" acting completely on its own, then the citizens aren't
really being represented.

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From: Decklin Foster <decklin@base.org>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/11
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