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Re: Copyright in a Digital era (Was Re: KDE v. Gnome)

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From: Leslie Mikesell
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:00
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In article <3vo5v6.ci4.ln@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>,
Mark Evans  <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> wrote:
>Ryan Drake <rdrake@dont.spam.matrox.com> wrote:
>> Leslie Mikesell wrote in message <6v37e4$foc$1@Venus.mcs.net>...
>>>Nobody writes Microsoft Office for the love of it.  More to the point
>> nobody
>>>will ever fix all the bugs in MS office (or, to be fair, any equivalent)
>> for
>>>the love of it.  Would your artist friends continue to love to paint if
>>>everyone who saw their work demanded to have something fixed or additional
>>>details added?
>
>> They could always let someone else add fixes and details, and redistribute
>> it under the GPL... ;-)
>
>
>The idea being that if enough people get their hands on the code all
>of the bugs and feature lackings which really mattter will get fixed.
>(There may be plenty of bugs left in parts of the code which never 
>actually get executed however...)

I guess we'll find out with Netscape.  Have you fixed all their bugs
yet or are you still waiting for someone else to do it?

   Les Mikesell
     les@mcs.com
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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Copyright in a Digital era (Was Re: KDE v. Gnome)
Date: 1998/10/04
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