From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!ossa.telenet-ops.be!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.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> <3226555153660381@naggum.net> <86y9g8xyid.fsf@kirk.localdomain> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3226608410629691@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:06:35 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1017619595 193.71.199.50 (Mon, 01 Apr 2002 02:06:35 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 02:06:35 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:30650 * Erik Naggum > Coercion is _so_ not the point. * Eric Moss | OK again. I guess, after the zillions of posts here, I am not sure what | "the" point, if there is just one, is, or who is trying to make it. It is about economics, of course. Seeing coercion everywhere is not conducive to getting anywhere. /// -- 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.