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Date:      Tue, 05 Jun 2001 21:57:54 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>, "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article
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At 02:06 PM 6/5/2001, j mckitrick wrote:

>The price is not for the sex itself, but for the lack of the usual
>complications involved. 

Ah, but there are other likely complications -- legal, social, and
medical. Patronizing a prostitute is risky business.

>However, there will be needs that will not be filled quickly enough by these
>kinds of programmers, and there will be projects that none of them want to
>do.  So, there will remain a market for programmers-for-hire to fill that
>need.

In short, programmers will be reduced to doing grunt work and dirty work
at low pay. This is exactly what Stallman envisions in his "GNU Manifesto."

--Brett


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