Re: Free software in business (was maddog speaks)

[Derek Martin]

Today, Derek Martin gleaned this insight:

> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote:
> 
> > Thank you, very informative.
> > 
> > But don't you think it only right that these people get paid for the
> > work? 
> 
> 
> NN   NN      OO     !!
> NNN  NN    OO  OO   !!
> NNNNNNN   OO    OO  !!
> NN  NNN    OO  OO
> NN   NN      OO     !!
> 
> 
> Not if they don't feel the need to get paid.  Why should I?
> 

I'd also like to point out that if our founding fathers had that attitude,
this country would be nowhere today... probably still a British colony, or
perhaps a Spanish one.  Or quite possibly a Nazi German one.

That attitude has become pervasive only in the last 20 years or so, and it
sucks.  The country is going to hell, and that's exactly why.  

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Derek D. Martin              |  Unix/Linux Geek
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