Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: PILCH Hartmut
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:00

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>JC> The choice exists to use a product or to use a different one. If
>JC> it matters to you that much then it is up to YOU to bring an
>JC> OpenSource product out which is the equal of the propietary one -
>JC> YOU DO HAVE THAT FREEDOM!

Not necessarily.  You may be hindered by
(1) patents
(2) obscure interfaces that will be somewhere else by the
    time you have finally emulated them
    

>JC> Licensing allows the developer of a software product to spread
>JC> those costs among all the purchasers of a product and then to make
>JC> some profit so that development can begin on a new product.

Some social models of financing Open Source development are also
conceivable. I.e. a hardware tax whose revenues are used for public bidding
or prize awarding.  With today's level of public communication, it should be
possible to develop this (what some people may call socialist style) economy
in a sound and credible way.  And however corrupt the system may become, it
won't be more inept than "The Market", which has shown itself to be totally
inept in creating informational values.

--
Hartmut Pilch
http://www.a2e.de/phm/

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From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/04
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