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Article #1194Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: Axel Boldt
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:00
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Joel Peterson <joel@odin-consulting.com> writes:
> In general, public funding of software development is a terrible idea.
>
> void Rant(beer) {
>
> Although some kind of tax distributed to software organizations might
> initially help free software, eventually the tax distribution would be
> diverted to whichever organizations provided the biggest bribes (or
> lobbying, whatever it's called in your country) to the elected
> representatives and/or non-elected professional beaurocrats running the
> program.
Do you see that happening in science?
> A program of tax distribution would inevitably attract greedy people.
Do you see that happening in science?
> These people would lobby (bribe) for preferential treatment, regulations
> that hurt their competitors, and of course for more money. Much of the
> money would then find a way to be diverted into either the pockets of
> the greedy (if they're greedy for money) or into the growth of an empire
> (if they're greedy for power). In any case, comparatively little would
> find its way to the actual developer.
Do you see that happening in science?
I don't.
--
Axel Boldt ** axel@uni-paderborn.de ** math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/
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