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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: hoarding thwarted by technicality?
Message-ID: <957@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 17:02:30 EST
Article-I.D.: celtics.957
Posted: Mon Dec 23 17:02:30 1985
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Reply-To: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
Organization: Celerity Computing (Eastern Region), Framingham, MA
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In article <818@mit-eddie.UUCP> rms@prep.ai.mit.edu writes:
>From: rms@prep.ai.mit.edu (Richard M. Stallman)
>    How would you like it if someone took something that you had
>    worked on very hard and was planning to make a living from,
>    and declared that through some technicality, everyone could
>    have it and no one had to pay you for it?
>
>If someone was making plans like that, he was already planning to do
>something wrong: software hoarding.  If he was stopped, by a
>technicality or by other means, that's great.  We can rejoice because
>the public has been saved from being victims of hoarding.
>
>Software hoarders complain when thwarted, but we should not give them
>our sympathy.  Mafiosi, welfare cheaters and make-work bureaucrats
>also complain if their funds are cut off, but we don't sympathize with
>them, because that's what they deserve.
>
>If a person you care about is a software hoarder and you want
>to have good wishes for the person, the right way to do it
>is to hope the person comes to understand the wrongness of
>hoarding, and stops making plans to base his livelihood on
>hoarding.  Success in ill-gotten gains is not really a good wish.

Software HOARDER?  Boyoboy, are you lost in academia!  You mean, all
programming should be done for the good of society, and we evil nasty
commercial programmers should go out getting jobs hauling trash, or go
on welfare, and donate the software we develop in our spare time, out
of the goodness of our hearts, to the world at large?

Grow up!  This IS a capitalist society.
-- 
 ... "What were you expecting, rock'n'roll?"                                  

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