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

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From: C R Johnson
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:00

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Donal K. Fellows wrote:

> 
> While I agree with most of what you have said, I must admit that I
> failed to see how this last paragraph quite followed from the others.
> Not that a 1% charge towards supporting unencumbered software is a bad
> thing necessarily, 

Yes it is a bad thing necessarily. Using force to extract a minor 
"social good" is a bad thing. 

> but I just don't exactly understand how much people
> who have a 100% M$ system have benefitted from an open source software
> base (...) how are they actually benefitting right now in 
> practical terms[*]?  Inquiring
> minds want to know...

What is that little bsd guy with the pitchfork doing in 
the NT program manager?

cliff

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From: C R Johnson <iamcliff@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/10
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