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Article #1377Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: Code Monkey UK
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00
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On Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:42:31 GMT, Decklin Foster <decklin@base.org> wrote: >fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) writes: > >> 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 could use IE to visit a web site served up by Apache, or >use Outlook Express to read e-mail delivered by sendmail. So yes, free >software does benefit more people than its direct users. > A note was snipped from the quoted material so the given answer would be valid, with the note intact it is not. The note is shown below, and I think Decklin Foster should reconsider his response. Note: [* For the sake of argument, say they don't have any kind of internet connection - this is definitely the case still for many people, and I *am* aware of how involved free software is with the internet. ] Thad.
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