peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (07/31/89)
In article <1871@ucsd.EDU>, brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor) writes: > Or don't you count your time as valuable? This is a completely bogus argument. *IF* you don't have the money to, as you put it, "port your PC to the trashcan" and buy a UNIX box, *THEN* it doesn't matter what arbitrary value you put on your time. Besides, don't you know RMS said it's evil to earn big bucks from software? -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "The sentence I am now Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | writing is the sentence Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | you are now reading"
tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (08/31/89)
In article <5369@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: |Besides, don't you know RMS said it's evil to earn big bucks from software? Peter: Though I detect the ;-) face, it's not quite what rms saids. He's against anyone earning big bucks from the use of force. This includes software hoarding and other abuses of the intellectual property laws. thanx -len
" Maynard) (09/01/89)
In article <37331@bu-cs.BU.EDU> tower@bu-it.bu.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) writes: >In article <5369@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >|Besides, don't you know RMS said it's evil to earn big bucks from software? >Though I detect the ;-) face, it's not quite what rms saids. He's >against anyone earning big bucks from the use of force. This includes >software hoarding and other abuses of the intellectual property laws. A difference that makes no difference is no difference. It should be obvious that RMS is just whistling in the wind; there are far too many of us out there (myself proudly included) who make money from software for the situation to ever change. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- "Rabid rerouters *love* to route mail to devnull@hell.org" - Brandon Allbery