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

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From: Phil Hunt
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <KUiUdTAbZJG2Ewhy@dlsl.demon.co.uk>
           jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk "Jason Clifford" writes:
> In article <907546762snz@vision25.demon.co.uk>, Phil Hunt
> <philh@vision25.demon.co.uk> writes
> >Note that things like this are already in existance today. For example,
> >much TV programming in Britain is funded by a tax -- the "TV license".
> 
> In the UK we pay a TV license to fund the BBC. We do so becuase it
> offers a social service.

Open Source software also offers a service to society. I expect that
most of the UK population have used Open Source software; this includes
anyone who has browsed a web site served by Apache, for example. (It
probably includes everyone who has ever looked at any web site, because
the web probably wouldn't exist without Open Source software; nor
would the Internet for that matter).

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From: philh@vision25.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/05
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