On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 1:32 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:20:12 +0100 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > So how do you pay a programmer for his time and effots? > > er, by the hour? or on a per-project basis, or contract, I dunno. > > I don't know payroll! All I know is, it is impossible to make > information a commodity, at least not without getting into the mess > we're in now with IP, P2P, and DMCA and all that. Of course people > shouldn't work for free...
But you see this isn't a matter of payroll. The result of a programmer's work is *not* information, it is a product, and it should be for him to decide whether that product is given away or sold. Anne
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