Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:32:53PM +1100, Jim Lemon wrote:Besides all that, let's define 'we' as meaning only real people rather than the virtual variety known as corporations. People have moral issues, incorporated entitities only have PR problems. I dont see why a real person programmer could not expect virtual users to pay real money and real users pay only in attention.
"To release a non-free program is always ethically tainted..."You seem a bit confused. I don't understand what you mean.
But it's okay to get paid for work on somebody else's "ethically tainted" software, or expect contributions to support your work, or do "free" work on somebody else's time, or pyramid sell the idea of free software to stay on top of that particular heap. Well, it sounds awfully like crap to me, folks. If you give it away, which I sometimes do, you kiss it goodbye, but that's not making a living.
If you don't want to write free software, nobody forces you.
We just don't want to be forced to use unfree software!
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