Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Nix
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:00

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Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> writes:

>                              BTW do you use XV? You are aware that this
> package (inlcuded with most Linux distributions) is shareware aren't
> you?

Yes, and I am also aware that it has effectively died, because source
was not available and the maintainer stopped maintaining it.

This will not happen so easily to ImageMagick, for instance, because
if John Cristy ceases to maintain it, someone else cna pick it up.
(Of course, this does not mean `non-open-source software is bad', just
that it is more risky than open source software, because it is more
likely to die off than open source software is.)

-- 
`A wonderful piece of paper, that IDE specification... useful in
 so far as the margins may be used for the proofs of theorems...'
   - Terry Lambert on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc (from Nik Clayton)

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From: Nix <$}xin{$@esperi.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/29
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