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

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From: algoss
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:50:19 +0100, Jason Clifford
<jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>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.

We pay a TV license because the tv licensing authority in bristol has
a database of every household in the country. If your house doesn't
show up as having a license they send the heavys round and send you to
prison..

Alan Goss

- -
Just because they got you doesn't mean you'r not paranoid

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From: algoss@damclara.net (algoss)
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/05
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