Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 02:34:11 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: dan@langille.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Message-ID: <15071.58995.502328.328701@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <200104192252.PAA22484@usr01.primenet.com> References: <15071.19051.343972.458299@guru.mired.org> <200104192252.PAA22484@usr01.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> 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. > 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 want to be paid the fair market value of my labor. The value of the results of your labor and the value of your labor two different things. They are connected, as whoever pays for your labor needs to recoup that cost from the results. As we just finished discussing, there are a number of models to do that that don't require sale of the software. We haven't even exhausted the list yet. > > > > 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. Unions have been socializing the market value of labor for as long as they've been around. That hasn't stopped people from paying the mortgage with their savings. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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