Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Klaus Schilling
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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codemonkey_uk@hotmail.com (Code Monkey UK) writes:

> On 2 Oct 1998 18:13:27 GMT, unruh@physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) wrote:
> 
> >In <6nkoxaAMrKF2EwM4@dlsl.demon.co.uk> Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >
> >>MS users are being FORCED to upgrade to newer software by the company's
> >>dishonest practices and the company's practice of making new file
> >>formats incompatible with older versions of the same application.
> >
> >Forced? dishonest? They are simply using the monopoly rights which you
> >have staunchly advocated that they should have. That is what a monopoly
> >is all about. You can force the buyer to do do what you want. It was the
> >same with shoes under the communists regimes (buy these uncomfortable
> >shoes or go barefoot-- you are perfectly free to choose).
> <SNIP>
> 
> And so on.
> When will you people realise that just because Microsoft are
> manipluative and dishonest it doesn't mean that ALL propriortry
> software is evil.

There's no way to provide proprietary software in a honest way. It doesn't 
have anything to do with MS in particular.

		Klaus Schilling

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From: Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/05
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