On Thursday 24 August 2006 21:37, Hal Vaughan wrote: > But Paul, you're non-free.
Sure, but I also work for a living, I provide a service to my employer. Other people make goods. Yet others seem to think it's acceptable to consider an intangible and infinitely reproducible idea as property to be profited from. This isn't to say programmers shouldn't make money: They're providing the service of programming so you don't have to. But to do that, then turn around and charge a couple hundred bucks for something that has no natural scarcity, then saying they can't change it or fix it? That's just morally bankrupt. That's like saying "I thought of it first. Nobody else can think any thought like that again without paying me!" -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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