Omer Zak wrote:
Why is it proprietary solution of the worst kind?
Ooops! Forgot to put in my explicit humor disclaimer. My bad.
To explain, however. When you hire a programmer, you do not own her. You are merely paying her money to render you services. While you get the privilege of using these services, you are not at liberty to change the programmer's way of life, modify hours of sleep, what and how much to eat, or anything else that tweaks the performance of the service you pay so much to get. In other words - you get the service. If you like it, fine. If you don't, go somewhere else.
The only reason Stallman sees this as ok while he doesn't regard doing such things with software as moral is the ease of copy. If you people were easily copied, free software economics would apply here as well, and Gilad offering to rent the service of a programmer would be every bit as immoral as with other stuff we are talking about.
The code is free, your programmer isn't (to paraphrase on a certain commercial entity's slogan).As long as the code in question is Free Software,
Shachar
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