Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Jason Clifford
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <F0B8I1.475@a2e.de>, PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de> writes
>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

(1) Most such patents are invalid as they refer to a generic or pre-
existing item.

(2) See the Caldera lawsuite.

>
>>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.

Are you truely suggesting that I should pay a tax for something I will
NEVER use, just because YOU do not like paying for teh products that you
DO want to use?
-- 
Jason Clifford

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From: Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/04
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