Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!usfvax2!pdn!pdnan1!wolfe
From: wolfe@pdnan1.UUCP (Mike Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting shareware to the Usenet
Message-ID: <2051@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 16:13:00 GMT
References: <7606@alice.UUCP> <2530@dasys1.UUCP>
Sender: usenet@pdn.UUCP
Reply-To: wolfe@pdnan1.UUCP (Mike Wolfe)
Organization: Paradyne Corporation, Largo, Florida
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In article <2530@dasys1.UUCP> manes@dasys1.UUCP (Steve Manes) writes:
>In article <7606@alice.UUCP> wilber@alice.UUCP writes:
>>Why would a musician ever play for free?  To make the world a slightly
>>better place, maybe?
>
>Speaking as a professional musician I don't know of any musicians who
>play for free as a matter of choice or philosophy.  Even the original

You say that you don't know any musicians who play for both work and play?
I know plenty, they might not play a real gig for free (Night Club, etc)
but would play a party in a second. Because they *ENJOY* what they do, they
didn't get into music for the money but you need money to live so they also
have the luxury of doing something they love for a living. Granted that work
may not leave you as much time for fun.

Relpace musician with programmer and play with program in the above and
you have what I think is the answer to the orginal question (what was it
anyway :-). Of course if someone has to ask why anyone would want to do
things for free they wouldn't understand the answer anyway.


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