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

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From: PILCH Hartmut
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 00:00

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BR replied to Maciej Stachowiak:

>> I'd hate to see the government choosing which open source projects to
>> fund. nothing can screw up a good thing mroe than government funding.

>You mean like the internet?

I think quite a lot of good free software has come from university and
government funded projects.  Most probably.  And Phil Hunt earlier opened
this thread by asking for an "open source foundation" with "strong peer
review" as an institution for distributing this 1% which could be taken
from the VAT on computer sales.

I think the record of The Market in providing high-quality open-source
information proves it to be even more inept than government bureaucracies
of the worst kind, let alone well-proven organisations like the FSF.

--
Hartmut Pilch
http://www.a2e.de/phm/

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From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/08
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