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Re: Why is a lot of software proprietary?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Why is a lot of software proprietary? |
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Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:34:51 +0100 |
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Tim Smith <reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com> writes:
> In article <857iiwzdx1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> wrote:
>> Because proprietariness turns reinvention of the wheel into a business
>> model?
>
> Free software seems to do a hell of a lot of wheel reinvention, too.
But it is optional. And reinventing a wheel does not require you to
reinvent the rest of the car.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum