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Article #1222Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: Decklin Foster
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 00:00
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malcolm@pigsty.demon.co.uk (Malcolm McMahon) writes: > This works in direct proportion to how close it is to the current > situation. Substitute "software house" for "free software organistation" > and everyone gets to chose the individual products their money goes to > and you're back to the market. > > The only difference is you're forcing people who use very little > software to subsidise those that use a great deal of software. Not necessarily. The taxes should be proportional. In that case, it *is* like the market, except everyone has the freedom to fully use the software. -- please read: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ "cry me a bayou/and i'm leaving..." -tricky
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 10e97a,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gid10e97a,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fa692,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa692,public X-Google-Thread: fea0e,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfea0e,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: Decklin Foster <decklin@base.org> Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome) Date: 1998/10/09 Message-ID: <m3btnlcubg.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> X-Deja-AN: 399492235 Sender: decklin@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com References: <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <6vakpb$j1h$1@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <F0E6wp.oI@a2e.de> <907713607snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <6vh7hi$sp0$1@shell17.ba.best.com> <361e6c8e.2858450@news.demon.co.uk> <907886943snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <361eb7e1.1592650@news.demon.co.uk> Organization: @Home Network X-URL: http://decklin.base.org/ NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 14:14:40 PDT 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