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

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From: Thomas Womack
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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In comp.os.linux.advocacy Donal K. Fellows <fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:

: 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...

I'd be in a bit of a mess without C:\Program Files\Perl and
C:\TeX\miktex\bin\latex.exe, on this NT box. And I don't recall a
Microsoft Postscript interpreter on the model of Ghostscript.

Tom

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From: Thomas Womack <mert0236@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/05
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