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Article #1472Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Jerry Lynn Kreps
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:00
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Leslie Mikesell wrote: > > In article <slrn71aesl.14i.jedi@dementia.mishnet>, > <jedi@dementia.mishnet> wrote: > > >>> Capitalism fails for most people. That's a simple fact. > >> > >>Huh? I guess that depends on whether or not the stock market continues to > >>crash. There have been a lot of businesses making a lot of money for > > > > I was talking about entrepenuers. Have you seen the statistics > > on new business failure rates? An OpenSource orientation doesn't > > add much more in terms of significant risk than what's already > > there. > > Your reasoning is precisely backwards. If there is a high change of > failure at best, you must avoid every mistake to succeed. Knowingly > limiting your product line to things where literally everyone can > supply an identical product at less than your price sounds like a > mistake to me. (This is a GPL issue, not necessarily OpenSource). > > Les Mikesell > les@mcs.com You're right, Les. It is always interesting to note how those on the left want to spare other from the hurts of failure, so they always outlaw opportunities when they get into power. The moral self-righteousness of the nanny-staters amaze me. It is truely a religion that worships the man-god elitists.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <jlkreps@navix.net> Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/10/04 Message-ID: <3617AB31.221F1550@navix.net> X-Deja-AN: 397656539 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <360fb4c0.25402167@news.demon.co.uk> <slrn71a3ug.m6.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <6v371a$eke$1@Venus.mcs.net> <slrn71aesl.14i.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <6v68ut$c5p$1@Mercury.mcs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Navix Internet Subscribers Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss