Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 18:14:37 -0600 From: "Michael Rice" <marice@email.msn.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions List" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: commercial software Message-ID: <018901bd7f96$72f7b420$6e00cbc0@rice-home>
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I couldn't disagree more. If I need some software to get a job done, I don't mind paying for it. The creator of the software deserves to get paid for providing that software. By buying the software (as opposed to pirating it), I am helping another human being...I'm helping him earn a living and providing him/her incentive to create more and better software. I do use quite a bit of freeware, thanks to all the gracious authors. However, I am a capitalist to the bone. I love to see new and innovative products in the commercial world; I also love to see the creators of those products rake in as much $$$ as possibile - they deserve it. What you speak of just reeks of Socialism. BTW, I _love_ Microsoft products and I think Bill Gates is King. Michael Rice marice@msn.com -----Original Message----- From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Jochen.Solbrig@urz.uni-heidelberg.de <Jochen.Solbrig@urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Thursday, May 14, 1998 5:18 PM Subject: Re: commercial software >Speaking for myself, I'd say I'm using FreeBSD for more philosophical >reasons than anything. I'd say that the principle is to keep the code free >and the apps free. I don't know and/or don't care wether commercial >software is better, it's the principle behind it that sucks. This fits in >the illusion that nobody will get a job done if it's for free. D*mn it! >We're humans! We got to help each other, not profit of each other. > >Maybe I'm going too far on this but I don't care. If I want commercial >software, I'll go see King Gates III. > >Boycott Micro$oft! > >Spidey > > >> On 5/14/98, at 4:16 PM, Jochen Solbrig wrote: >> >> >hello! >> > >> >i'm interested in what freebsd users think about using >> >commercial software. most linux users seem to only >> >tolerate(?) it. >> > >> >bye, >> > jochen >> > >> > >> > ||| >> > ____O O____ Jochen >> > I U I Solbrig >> > I nnn I >> > ----- >> > / \ >> > / \ >> > >> > >> >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > >+-----------------------------------+ >| Free the world from businessmen | >| Free yourself from your money | >+-----------------------------------+ >Free the web. >Spidey > >visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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