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To: carl a. mehr who wrote (42644)	4/20/2000 2:56:00 PM
From: Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

carl,..Re:.talk about free software... Isn't this just typical socialist government stuff? <g> Very good point regarding support resources. Cheers, Lee

To: carl a. mehr who wrote (42644)	4/20/2000 3:00:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I believe the Danish proposal calls for free/open source interfaces, not necessarily final applications. The code development would likely be paid via taxes. TP

To: carl a. mehr who wrote (42644)	4/20/2000 4:20:00 PM
From: SunSpot	Respond to of 74651

I do. ;-) Why does Microsoft make free, open-source GPL'ed software? (Perl with Unicode) I have made open-source software and I will continue to do so. I only do this for very egoistic reasons: 1) I make tools for myself. By making the software free and open-source, other people improve the tools I need. Those tools could never reach the market without marketing, and I don't do marketing. 2) I get to know Linux details much better by programming Linux. This way I improve my value as advisor and system architect. 3) Some of our customers prefer to get the source-code. We have no problems in delivering the source-code. Have you ever thought about, that most Microsoft Office based solutions are delivered with source-code? If a marketing department orders some programmers to do a Microsoft Access database, they often would like to be able to change details later, like adding a new report og modifying existing code. They can only do that if they get the Access database as an *.mdb file, which contains the source-code. Why should big IT departments be less professional than a marketing department buying an Access database?