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

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From: Axel Boldt
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 00:00

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Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes:

> The original proposal I was responding to, was to have a hardware tax
> that would be the sole form of funding Open Source software. While
> money is not the sole factor for project viability, government funding
> of some projects would produce massive distortions in where the
> development effort goes.

Note however that this is exactly how science works. Government
decides what to fund, with tax money. Both capitalist and socialist
societies have used this model; it seems to be a clear winner in the
marketplace of ideas. Were it not for this, you would see
mathematicians patent applications of their theorems. The way it is,
theorems are released into the public domain and everybody wins.

-- 
 Axel Boldt  **  axel@uni-paderborn.de  **  math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/

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From: Axel Boldt <axel@uni-paderborn.de>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/09
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