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In article <v8wk92dflo7.fsf@huis-clos.mit.edu>
           mstachow@mit.edu "Maciej Stachowiak" writes:
> philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
> > If 1% of the purchase price of all computers went to organisations
> > funding Open Source software, this would give it a big boost. Open
> > Source is already a major part of the software world -- a large
> > part of the programs I use every day are Open Source -- and much
> > Open Source software is of high quality, for example the Apache
> > web server which runs 53% of all web sites.
> 
> 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.

Er, actually govmts have already been choosing which open source
projects they fund. Such trashy projects as the Internet and the
WWW, for example.

If govmt-funded Open Source software turns out to be not any good, 
then people won't use it. It won't detract from already-existing OS 
stuff.

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