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

Article View: uk.comp.os.linux

Article #1166

#1166

From: Jerry Lynn Kreps
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00

29 lines
2809 bytes

Decklin Foster wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

Decklin,
Are you a successful farmer?  If there is one profession that has
experienced MANY changes of the last 30 years it is agriculture, in the
USA at least.
Farming has such a lot rate of return that if farmers don't stay on the
cutting edge of technology they don't have a ghost of a chance of
remaining profitable.  There is one area of farming that is rapidly
fading away, though, and that is the one-man, 640 acre farm.  Even at
200+ bushels per acre there isn't enough (if any) profit per bushel to
support one family per section of land.  Many seasons there isn't ANY
profit, even with the best high-tech tools around.  Only a corporation
can't write off such losses and stay in business.  (How corporations
like Cargil manipulate the commodity market to drive out the small
farmer is another problem which has led to corn prices being the lowest
they've been in 50 years and cereal at the supermarket costing the
highest they've ever been.)
Jerry

Technical Details

Message-ID: <3620C142.BE72F5EC@navix.net>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References:

<F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <907546762snz@vision25.demon.co.uk>  <v8wk92dflo7.fsf@huis-clos.mit.edu>  <m3btnnd7pj.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com>  <v8wbtnmra51.fsf@huis-clos.mit.edu>  <m3u31epev9.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com>  <361ECCE9.A9EEED82@odin-consulting.com>  <xzqaf34et5g.fsf@uni-paderborn.de> <v8wlnmnu3k5.fsf@m2-032-11.mit.edu> <m3ww67d60t.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

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: fa692,5c442900c2af201f
X-Google-Attributes: gidfa692,public
X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174
X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public
X-Google-Thread: 10e97a,5c442900c2af201f
X-Google-Attributes: gid10e97a,public
X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773
X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public
X-Google-Thread: fea0e,5c442900c2af201f
X-Google-Attributes: gidfea0e,public
From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <jlkreps@navix.net>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/11
Message-ID: <3620C142.BE72F5EC@navix.net>
X-Deja-AN: 399944443
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
References: <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <907546762snz@vision25.demon.co.uk>  <v8wk92dflo7.fsf@huis-clos.mit.edu>  <m3btnnd7pj.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com>  <v8wbtnmra51.fsf@huis-clos.mit.edu>  <m3u31epev9.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com>  <361ECCE9.A9EEED82@odin-consulting.com>  <xzqaf34et5g.fsf@uni-paderborn.de> <v8wlnmnu3k5.fsf@m2-032-11.mit.edu> <m3ww67d60t.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Organization: Navix Internet Subscribers
Mime-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.society.futures,comp.os.linux.advocacy,uk.politics.misc,uk.politics.economics,gnu.misc.discuss

Reply to Parent Message