Re: Tocqueville on open source development

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

Sure he does. We've already seen, as referenced in earlier messages, that 
Stallman advocates taxing the public and using the money to fund the
development of free software -- which, in turn, he belives will put
an end to the existence of commercal software.

Tax software companies to fund the development of products that will 
compete unfairly with theirs and put them out of business? I think not.

--Brett


At 05:46 PM 11/7/98 -0500, James Love wrote:
 
>Eric M. Bennett wrote:
>> It becomes "communist" only when somebody (Stallman) suggests replacing all
>> (or perhaps even the majority of) commercial software with
>> government-written software funded by a software tax.
>> 
>  
>  Are you putting words in Richard Stallman's mouth?  I certainly have never
>heard him say anything like this.  Jamie
>
>
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