Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!cs!samadams!tr From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Rich $alz is still alive ??!!!??!! Message-ID: <5179@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> Date: 10 Dec 90 14:46:10 GMT References: <21867@well.sf.ca.us> <225@coplex.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.Princeton.EDU Organization: Noo Joizy -- The Cultural Mecca Lines: 22 In article <225@coplex.UUCP> dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks) writes: $ $ Along a differnet note however, when someone volunteers for a position, $ say the American Red Cross, there are thousands of people also volunteering $ their time to the organization. If the leader of such an organization $ doesnt do their job well, the other volunteers have EVERY RIGHT to be upset. $ They were donating their time to others, and in the end the whole system $ fell apart. I think this analogy has a hole. The Red Cross provides an essential service. Lives depend on it. Lives are more important than the flow of free software. Loss of the latter would not change the world as much. The world would adapt. Perhaps the strange thing is that the Red Cross exists. It is essential, yet it is run by so many volunteers. -- Tom Reingold tr@samadams.princeton.edu OR ...!princeton!samadams!tr "Warning: Do not drive with Auto-Shade in place. Remove from windshield before starting ignition."