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Article #1431Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Jason Clifford
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00
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In article <6v8mp4$dsq$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, Bill Unruh <unruh@physics.ubc.ca> writes >The baker, just as with the software company, has many fixed costs, and >his own living to consider as well. Or did you think ovens etc were >free? Using your analogy a software company should seel its product for >the price of the expenses of that one disk (about 50 cents these days). Why do yuo continually erfuse to acknowledge that the cost of software is not the cost of media (with the exception of Linux and other FREE software) but is the cost of engaging the efforts of the developers and the cost of the equipment necessary to produce the software? >Precisely the case for software. If I sell something too similar to Word >2.0, I get a nasty letter from MS. A copyright does give the company or >person owing it absolute control over anything sufficiently similar to >the product being copyrighted. That is a monopoly. No, while MS may send you such a letter they have no case unless your produce is a 'copy' of theirs. There are plenty of WYSIWYG word processors out there. MS have control of only one! -- Jason Clifford
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/10/05 Message-ID: <fk+RREAoJJG2Ewgl@dlsl.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 397868614 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dlsl.demon.co.uk:194.222.129.182 References: <873e9hret2.fsf@ivm.de> <6ufkfu$o96$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <87sohgzh44.fsf@ivm.de> <FWc39EA3TLD2Ewp3@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6uipd0$oj8$1@winter.news.erols.com> <87zpbmkhdn.fsf@ivm.de> <kbCveHAOyWD2EwdN@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980927140803.10597B-100000@howard> <m3af3knl8m.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> <6up86o$t23$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <9nQpxDAYqKE2EwlY@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <m37lyls7gl.fsf@c26469-a.clnvl1.ct.home.com> <7W849EAptrE2EwXO@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6uuqch$mie$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <GHjnJHASQKF2Ewpf@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6v33p4$jqh$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <Db9muEAqVWF2EwIG@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <m3n27dmzmq.fsf@obelix.wegge.dk> <SalyuSAJBnF2Ewa7@dlsl.demon.co.uk> <6v8mp4$dsq$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 907583936 nnrp-03:15573 NO-IDENT dlsl.demon.co.uk:194.222.129.182 Organization: Definite Linux Systems Ltd MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss