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Article #1212Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: PILCH Hartmut
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:00
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>I still think the market for free software would be better off without >the economic distortions of any government funding (other than, say, What "market"? OpenSource Software is not market-driven. When market economy meets information society, the result is "economic distortion". Correcting this is what RMS's DAT proposal is all about. Here's another proposal: 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. I think all proposals should be explored and tried. None is perfect. But each single one is better than market economy. -- Hartmut Pilch http://www.a2e.de/phm/
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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: 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 X-Google-Thread: fa692,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa692,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut) Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome) Date: 1998/10/10 Message-ID: <F0LuzM.1G6@a2e.de> X-Deja-AN: 399891366 References: <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <907546762snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <v8wk92dflo7.fsf@huis-clos.mit.edu> <907786057snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <v8waf36r9s0.fsf@huis-clos.mit.edu> <xzqww6aplq8.fsf@uni-paderborn.de> <v8wg1cxy9py.fsf@huis-clos.mit.edu> <xzqbtnle3ap.fsf@uni-paderborn.de> <v8w7ly8nbkh.fsf@M66-080-10.mit.edu> Organization: Asia-Europa Sprachendienste Pilch und Wang 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