I asked "why are we here?" I think the main reason I am here is because I strongly wish to spend long hours taking my time (but remaining focused and hard-working) to create really high quality software with a special emphasis on the things that I know are possible -- but just a little beyond the horizon of what can easily be done in conventional ways.
I don't think that that goal can be separated from the free software movement in general but I don't think the two are equivalent, either. I have nothing to say *against* the moral arguments for free software -- I just think that there are *also* arguments for it that relate to socially responsible and high quality engineering. I was sincere in posing the question. Perhaps if a few others respond we can begin to, anarchically, pick a direction. -t p.s.: my notion of the ideal of "long hours" is very much subordinate to family-and-friends considerations. I work in support of those things, not the other way around. _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
