From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!134.222.94.5!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Where's your Lisp software, Janos Blazi? References: <3b97d110_1@news.newsgroups.com> <87elpjn19q.fsf@nkapi.internal> <3b98885b_8@news.newsgroups.com> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3208959203653071@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 17:33:25 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 999970405 193.71.66.49 (Sat, 08 Sep 2001 19:33:25 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 19:33:25 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:15959 * Christopher Stacy > There might be exceptions, but it's not any of the "free" software that I > have ever used regularly. Remember, "free software" is not like "free > beer". Someone, somehow, pays for it. The "free" part refers to the > freedom to copy the software, once someone has already paid for it to > exist. Several people have donated their own time because they actually believe in what they do and what they want to accomplish. Self-funding does not make you rich, generally speaking, but a significant fraction of what has gone into Emacs has been done on private time without any "funding". A lot of other software has been developed in people's spare time at first, at least. I find it quite insulting to those many of us who have in fact donated our own time and money to various projects to imply that there we have always used somebody else's resources. As far as I know, Linus Thorvalds started Linux on his spare time and spent a lot of time working on it before he shared it with anyone, and even longer before he got any resources in exchange for it. ///