On Jan 7, 2008, at 6:31 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
Richard, should we expect a contribution to the project for the timethat you and your minions have taken from all of us?I have no minions,
Yes, this was gratuitous and irrelevant to my point, so I apologize.
and I cannot take time from you. However, if you adopt the policy that you won't reply to my messages unless I pay you to, you will be within your rights.
And this misses my point entirely. I'm not asking you to pay me, and you're under no obligation to pay anybody. However, in the quote of yours that I presented in my previous post you made a point of how valuable your time was and how it was not for others to dispose of, thus justifying your request for contributions to your cause in return.
Perhaps my time is worthless to you. Perhaps my time isn't of much value to the project either. However, there are a lot of people who read this list, and over the past few weeks a large amount of our time has been taken up by this little train wreck of yours. A good number of the people whose time you've taken (and you have, despite your claim to the contrary) are important to this project, and that would seem to indicate that this time has been taken from the project itself.
So, regardless of how you feel about my time, if you value the project as you've stated, it seems to me that it is not unreasonable to expect that a contribution is in order. You can of course do as you wish. You are certainly _free_ to not contribute or contribute as you see fit, but please keep in mind that our time is not yours to dispose of either.
-Jonathan
