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

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From: Decklin Foster
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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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.

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Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/05
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