From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 19 13:28:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2DFD37B424 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:28:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 63416 invoked by uid 100); 19 Apr 2001 20:28:27 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15071.19051.343972.458299@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:28:27 -0500 To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux In-Reply-To: <200104192013.f3JKDfm73628@ns1.unixathome.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419140150.045176b0@localhost> <200104192013.f3JKDfm73628@ns1.unixathome.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dan Langille types: > On 19 Apr 2001, at 15:10, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Brett Glass types: > > > Not true. Commercial software does not destroy markets or reduce > > > programmers to the status of wage slave. > > Try contracting for MicroSoft. > I'm a programmer. I get paid for my work. And by no means can it be > considered a slave wage. I'd say the same thing myself. And, contrary to the nonsense that Brett was spouting, it doesn't matter whether I'm working on GPL'ed softare or not. > > You build capital as a programmer under conditions D, E and F the > > exact same way you do in all those other fields, working under those > > conditions. > Can I pay my mortgage with that capital? Since people working in other fields seem to manage it, you ought to be able to. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message