Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:52:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer) Cc: dan@langille.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Message-ID: <200104192252.PAA22484@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <15071.19051.343972.458299@guru.mired.org> from "Mike Meyer" at Apr 19, 2001 03:28:27 PM
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> > > > 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. Let's cut the BS: I want to be able to build a piece of software, and sell the rights to use it, for as long as the market will pay for those rights. I'm not some ivory tower academeic who can live on "genius" grants resulting from my public speaking. I want to be paid the fair market value of my labor. > > > 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. As long as there's not some moron in that field trying to socialize the results of my labor, I probably could. Why only pick on software? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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