From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 18:40:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0db9d894a061fe6e26c6a276d00ae119@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130907160618.GA469@polynum.com>
> The "gratis" software has not been "gratis" for the ones who have
> written it. It took time. The bulk of the difference is here.
Sure, but we're still applying a modern metric to something that spans
history (intellect, whatever that is).
The fact that sales and marketing people make more money than
"inventors" says it all. By all means demand an equitable share of
"profits" for your contribution to a product, but blocking others
access to the same (think about patents on gentic material) rates, in
my opinion, at the same level as selling religion. In fact, I think
they are just different symptoms of the same disease.
Of course, the number of different issues that need to be taken into
account is much greater than the single item discussed here, but
anything that rewards greed ought to be treated, at minimum, with
great suspicion, not with veneration.
++L
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-07 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-05 22:13 Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-09-05 22:35 ` erik quanstrom
2013-09-06 8:49 ` Richard Miller
2013-09-06 9:52 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-09-06 10:24 ` hiro
2013-09-05 22:36 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-09-05 23:07 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-09-06 8:27 ` Steve Simon
2013-09-06 22:59 ` BurnZeZ
2013-09-06 23:00 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-09-07 19:15 ` Christopher Nielsen
2013-09-06 23:10 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-09-06 23:35 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-09-06 23:42 ` Nemo
2013-09-07 2:49 ` erik quanstrom
2013-09-07 4:06 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2013-09-07 4:36 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 6:24 ` pmarin
2013-09-07 13:21 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-09-07 13:28 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 13:33 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-09-07 13:41 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 13:56 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-09-07 14:32 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 14:52 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2013-09-07 16:28 ` erik quanstrom
2013-09-07 17:01 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2013-09-07 17:48 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-09-07 20:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-09-07 23:47 ` Matthew Veety
2013-09-08 0:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-09-08 7:00 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 14:58 ` Anthony Sorace
2013-09-07 15:05 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 15:14 ` tlaronde
2013-09-07 15:46 ` lucio
2013-09-07 16:06 ` tlaronde
2013-09-07 16:40 ` lucio [this message]
2013-09-07 16:56 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2013-09-07 17:45 ` lucio
2013-09-07 17:50 ` lucio
2013-09-07 16:57 ` tlaronde
2013-09-07 16:35 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2013-09-06 23:48 Terry Wendt
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