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

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From: Maciej Stachowiak
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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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.

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From: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/06
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