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

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From: Maciej Stachowiak
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:00

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> > 
> > 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.
>
> Yeah, the NSF sure screwed up that Internet thing.
>

It did screw it up in some notable ways, for example giving a single
company monopoly control over the domain name space, and not planning
for future growth in the protocols and infrastructure (although there
is plenty of blame to go around for the latter).


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From: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/07
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