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List:       suse-linux-uk-schools
Subject:    Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] StarOffice
From:       Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-02-11 13:54:31
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Yes, my post wasn't checked. I've corrected it. Well
put - I agree completely with your summing up. Please
see my corrected post.

Ta

--
Matt

--- Tim Pizey <timp@paneris.org> wrote:
> On Monday 11 February 2002 11:22, Matt Johnson
> wrote:
> >
> > I totally agree that the notion of something for
> > nothing is both wrong, and wrong (i.e. incorrect,
> and
> > wrong (morally)).
> >
> I think that this is to misunderstand computing.
> Computing has something in common with literature
> and language.
> Sure Shakespeare was paid, or patronised, during his
> (or her) life, 
> but we receive Shakespeares work as 'something for
> nothing' 
> not withstanding the money we may pay a particular
> publisher.
> 
> So open-source software is software which hopes to
> become 
> part of the corpus of computer science which will
> survive the 
> original author and become part of human culture.
> 
> Can't see anything wrong or wrong here.
> Just the normal standing on the shoulders of giants
> which 
> pervades civilisaton.
> 
> cheers
> timp


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