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

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From: Axel Boldt
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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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.

-- 
 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: 1998/10/06
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