On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Michael Halcrow wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:48:26PM -0600, Sasha Pachev wrote:I believe the ideal situation would be to have a program that selects elite developers and supports them while they work on some open source project of their choice. They should have no pressure, no deadlines, no stress.
Welcome to the American Free Market Economy, Sasha. We have this little thing we call ``competition.'' If you manage to land a paying position with ``no pressure, no deadlines, and no stress,'' you can rest assured that I will aggressively try to take that job away from you, and *poof* all of the sudden you will have pressure, deadlines, and stress. Now get back to work.
The problem is that things like software is where the American Free Market Economy fails, like my previous post pointed out. Hence we have copyright laws, which make it less Free Market-ish in the hopes that we can have high-quality software produced than otherwise would result.
Do I think Sasha's communistic plans would be better than America's copyrightistic? I really don't know--but it doesn't matter much because I don't like either of them very much, and I don't think either are very effective. :-)
~ Ross
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This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter.
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