After takin' a swig o' grog, Joe Potter belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> "Chris Ahlstrom" <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:DYqCk.39946$Ep1.23125@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> After takin' a swig o' grog, chrisv belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>>>
>>> Add another F to Fsckwit.
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>> Even if you believe Hadrone's story, so what? Roy's entitled to
>> compensation for authoring an article.
>
> I'm not sure I'd call it "authoring" but whatever.
Yeah, whatever, dood.
> So why shouldn't someone be entitled to compensation for authoring a
> software product? After all, it takes much more skill and time to author a
> software product.
Indeed. And, if Roy insisted on getting paid for his software products,
he is perfectly in the right to do so. He can even charge more for
giving out the source, too.
We might not want truck with his proprietary software for reasons of our
own, and may even disagree with his strategy, but it is his right.
You seem to think that, just because we prefer open-source, we also
prefer people not get paid for their labors.
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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry Truman
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