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

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From: Jason Clifford
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00

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On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, PILCH Hartmut 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?

The solution is simple. Let your free software be free (in whatever sence
you choose) and let your non-free softwaer be non-free. The market (being
those ho might be interested in your software) will decide if they want it
and are willing to pay or not.

Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/

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From: Jason Clifford <jason@ukpost.com>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/11
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