Article View: uk.comp.os.linux
Article #1337Re: Publicly funded software development
From: Clancy Dalebout
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
26 lines
2379 bytes
2379 bytes
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Axel Boldt <axel@uni-paderborn.de> wrote: > fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) writes: >> Not that a 1% charge towards supporting unencumbered software is a bad >> thing necessarily, but I just don't exactly understand how much people >> who have a 100% M$ system have benefitted from an open source software >> base. Sure, they *could* (and I would advise them to) but how are >> they actually benefitting right now in practical terms[*]? Inquiring >> minds want to know... > Well, they don't even have to have a computer to benefit from free > software. They utilize free software every time they send a letter > through the US Mail. Furthermore, lots of tax monies are saved because > research institutions can install cheap Beowulfs and other free > software. Oh, you don't have to go that far... How about every programming language known to man? (Yep, even visual basic was once Dartmouth PDP10 public domain basic) -- Clancy Dalebout | xmsho@!spam!nein!yahoo.com I keep trying to tell my boss that no, Satan is a tool of Linux, not the other way around.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<6vdvd5$72$1@spitting-spider.aracnet.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <907546762snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <F0CBvu.oE@a2e.de> <6vakpb$j1h$1@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <xzqhfximhlx.fsf@uni-paderborn.de>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: fa692,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa692,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: 10e97a,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gid10e97a,public X-Google-Thread: fea0e,5c442900c2af201f X-Google-Attributes: gidfea0e,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: Clancy Dalebout <fleegix@shell2.aracnet.com> Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development Date: 1998/10/06 Message-ID: <6vdvd5$72$1@spitting-spider.aracnet.com> X-Deja-AN: 398396574 References: <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de> <907546762snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <F0CBvu.oE@a2e.de> <6vakpb$j1h$1@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <xzqhfximhlx.fsf@uni-paderborn.de> Organization: Aracnet Internet User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) 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 Originator: fleegix@aracnet.com (Clancy Dalebout)