From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!ossa.telenet-ops.be!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Kent, why do you use free software References: <3C9A12FC.8EC6D8CA@smi.de> <87u1r3hzkh.fsf_-_@becket.becket.net> <87pu1rhypm.fsf@becket.becket.net> <3226184746308651@naggum.net> <87zo0ubupg.fsf@becket.becket.net> <877knyblrk.fsf@becket.becket.net> <63637457.0203270542.1628e4a3@posting.google.com> <87ofh6ug8d.fsf@kursk.kassube.de> <3226535078056817@naggum.net> <87it7d2r6b.fsf@becket.becket.net> <86lmc9nnhk.fsf@kirk.localdomain> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3226555153660381@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 24 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 09:18:58 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1017566338 193.71.199.50 (Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:18:58 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:18:58 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:30618 * Eric Moss | Pardon the digression, but something someone said here didn't sound quite | right. They equated giving software away with giving bread away and | destroying the livelihood of bakers, or something like that. I have a | hard time equating the individual donations of many volunteers with the | centralized, coerced extraction of tax money to distribute a single, | bland product. Where did "centralized, coerced extraction of tax money" come from? | Maybe I missed the point of the story Looks very much like you got hung up in something unrelated to the story. | All this was done (apparently) with the only coercion being that noone | who agreed to participate would coerce others to contribute for free to | their own profit-making. Coercion is _so_ not the point. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.