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Article #1847Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Jason Clifford
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <87sohgzh44.fsf@ivm.de>, Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes >Freedom has nothing to do with price. It appears only to be an extension of YOUR will - for everyone! Most of us are quite content to pay for good quality commercial software. Companies like ID Software and Applix are not claiming that their products are free so what is your problem? They aer actually doing Linux (and open source in general) a lot of good by bringing them into the open so that even more people can benefit from them. Perhaps you don't like that. Are you one of those very sad individuals that believes that these wonderful toys should only be available for use by your and your friends? You do realise that the GPL is quite clear that ANYONE can use and distribute software under that license don't you? Freedom actually has a lot to do with price. For any product, whether free or not, to have a viable long term future there has to be a way of paying the developers so that they can afford to dedicate their efforts into continuing developement and maintenance (and also to feed and clothe themselves and their families!). -- Jason Clifford
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public From: Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/09/26 Message-ID: <FWc39EA3TLD2Ewp3@dlsl.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 395040327 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dlsl.demon.co.uk:194.222.129.182 References: <6snt2s$rnk$1@news-2.news.gte.net> <6tv4h8$24u$7@blue.hex.net> <6tvcur$ken$6@news-2.news.gte.net> <slrn706f8l.qlf.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <slrn708sck.3oh.aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca> <slrn70amsk.6c3.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <slrn70b6md.33f.aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca> <slrn70c61l.8uq.jedi@dementia.mishnet> <slrn70dq8b.b87.aa126@fan1.fan.nb.ca> <rzGN1.4173$F7.15421868@news.itd.umich.edu> <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <p5sohihlrc.fsf@baynetworks.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980923105630.13773B-100000@howard> <slrn70ic1k.97.homer_j_simpson@donut.dhis.org> <6uc2pk$jh1$5@blue.hex.net> <873e9hret2.fsf@ivm.de> <6ufkfu$o96$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> <87sohgzh44.fsf@ivm.de> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 906806326 nnrp-04:15259 NO-IDENT dlsl.demon.co.uk:194.222.129.182 Organization: Definite Linux Systems Ltd MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss