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> movement is to prove itself, it will need to produce a commercially 
> viable product.

Service is a commercially viable product.

>  Declaring the K Desktop Enviroment (KDE) apostate 
> because it contains some proprietary code from a Norwegian company is 
> beyond belief.  For a dynamic market to grow up around an open-source 
> software product, the open-source movement will have to be 
> unencumbered from all of the left-of-Leningrad socio-economic 
> claptrap." 

Someone should send the author a copy of Marc Ewings commentaries on why
Red Hat decided not to include QT in the core distribution at that time.
Didn't declare it "apostate", didn't even say it wasn't good software.
Just pointed out the desire that the basic linux distribution would be
built on open-source software only.

Sum total, IMO, the article is a composite of ignorance and lack of
understanding of many issues.  If I can find a copy of the article
I'll try to word a polite version of why for the magazine & the author.
"Ignorant Ass" is briefer & more to the point, but those who need to
learn something generally don't respond well to such comments. 8^)

Best
   rickf
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Rick Forrister                 <Richard Forrister jpl nasa gov>

"To get something done a committee should consist of no more than
 three people, two of whom are absent."  Robert Copeland