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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Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> writes:

> In the UK we pay a TV license to fund the BBC. We do so becuase it
> offers a social service.

Yes, but a strong peer reviewed open source foundation of the
informational infrastructure is also very much in the public interest.
For one thing, it makes catastrophic problems less likely (Y2K), for
another, it encourages code reuse which saves resources for the
economy.

-- 
 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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