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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Software (and other kinds of) copying
Message-ID: <1918@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 19:12:27 GMT
References: <8055@g.ms.uky.edu> <174@piring.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Keywords: technology changes things

In article <174@piring.cwi.nl> jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) writes:
>I hope this doesn't make me sound like a dogmatic Marxist (I am neither),
>but I still feel that capitalism is the problem: people want money back in
>return for their efforts, and aren't satisfied with fame or esteem or whatever
>else.

Wanting money back in return for efforts, and/or not being satisfied
with fame or esteem, has nothing to do with capitalism.  This belongs
in the realm of psychology.

Capitalism has more to do with whether it's legal to obtain money in
return for one's efforts.  The GNU project fits perfectly in a
capitalistic system, as does shareware and public domain software, as
does commercial software.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi