Patric don't get upset, I never said anything about reducing one's standing, it is just an issue of how one view's oneself. If he thinks he should give away his code, its fine, if not, it is fine again. Both ways are legal and valid. It is up to the individual.

Your points are of course valid.

patric conant wrote:
This sort of approach scares me, eating, and making money in order to do so does not reduce your standing in the community, there are obviously those people whom would rather have a "sales" transaction with a trusted source, than download something freely available on the 'Net, selling them something is not at philosophical odds with Free Software, its one of the Freedoms that implicitly and carefully protected in most OSI licenses.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Angelos Karageorgiou <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:

    It is fine, the issue is philosophical.That  is,  how you think of
    yourself. Are you part of the Open Source crowd or not.


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