Re: Tocqueville on open source development

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

>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

I thought this was what he implied, but I did mean to put a question mark
after his name just in case.  Sorry.

(I just reread some of his material, and although he does seem to want to
destroy traditional commercial software, his advocacy of government funding
is not as strong as I recalled... he doesn't push it.)



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