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Date: Sat,  7 Sep 2013 18:40:48 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult
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> 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