Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Jason Clifford
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <xzqbtnyqp0c.fsf@uni-paderborn.de>, Axel Boldt <axel@uni-
paderborn.de> writes
>antispam@feverish.demon.co.uk (Robert Wilderspin) writes:
>
>> Companies will pay for all of the major improvements and additions,
>> and that's all well and good, but they won't pay for simple tweaks
>> that a lot of people currently do.
>
>Well, then let the people pay for these simple tweaks:

Which people? Let the people pay sounds remarkably like charging for the
software. That is the only method that would guarantee suffucient income
for the developers after all.

GPL forbids this.
-- 
Jason Clifford

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From: Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/30
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