On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:15 -0700, Levi Pearson wrote: > Free software advocates really do seem to have a tremendous sense of > entitlement!
Whoa, careful there, not all of us do. There's a big difference between "I wish everyone would release their code before discontinuing a product" and "Everyone should be forced to release their code to make me happy". Yes, there is a strong under current of greedy entitlement that some Free Software advocates get sucked into. But there's just as much greed and wrongful sense of entitlement in the proprietary world. One could even argue that the unreasonable position of the first is a direct result of the unreasonable position of the second. But that's simply all the more reason to listen and think things through carefully. Von might have said it is selfish to hoard code in the hope of re-releasing products like movies, but he didn't say anything about forcing a change. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
