Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!anise!salt.acc.com!lars From: lars@salt.acc.com (Lars J Poulsen) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Software, development & copyrights Message-ID: <1017@anise.acc.com> Date: 3 Aug 89 06:31:35 GMT References: <26@ark1.nswc.navy.mil> <26832@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5401@ficc.uu.net> <26879@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1312@mcrware.UUCP> Sender: news@anise.acc.com Organization: Advanced Computer Communications, Santa Barbara, California Lines: 40 In article <26879@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike 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. In article <1312@mcrware.UUCP> jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes: >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? (1) I don't think it is necessarily wrong to "hoard" software, but I can understand why the FSF people may find it wrong. Now, please understand that they cannot prevent you from hoarding your software; they just reserve the right to not give you free help if you choose to be a "hoarder". Seems reasonable to me. Mike Meyer: >>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? James Jones: >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. (2) You are free to amke money the way you want. But if you want to make money that way, you have to bear the cost: You have to buy commercial tools. It never ceases to amaze me, how conservatives insist on freedom to take advantage of others at the same time as they want protection from others like themselves. / Lars Poulsen (800) 222-7308 or (805) 963-9431 ext 358 ACC Customer Service Affiliation stated for identification only My employer probably would not agree if he knew what I said !!