Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcrware!jejones From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Software, development & copyrights Message-ID: <1312@mcrware.UUCP> Date: 2 Aug 89 15:32:20 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26832@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5401@ficc.uu.net> <26879@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa Lines: 21 In article <26879@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes: >And now, you're making the same mistake that triggered the other >thread. You're acting like hoarding software is the only way to make >money out of programming. This just isn't so. Perhaps, but--why should asserting rights to the product of one's intellectual labor (I refuse to use the phrase "software hoarding," since it is a loaded term intended to make one accept RMS's philosophy, sort of like that tiny bunch of people in 1917 who named themselves "The Majority") be considered wrong? >Now, given the choice between someone who wants to put as many of your >dollars in their pockets as they can, and someone who wants to make >everyone be nice to each other and share, which would you choose? I don't know--I'm not presented with that choice. I see a bunch of people who assert that the efforts I exert to provide a service and put some money in *my* pockets are evil, and that I should be willing to do that work for nothing. James Jones