From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 23 11: 1:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E6737B82F for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 11:01:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25024; Tue, 23 May 2000 12:01:50 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000523115749.04536980@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:01:44 -0600 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Arun Sharma From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <392ABB6D.94B7C8B7@gorean.org> References: <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org> <20000522170335.B94994@azazel.zer0.org> <20000523085510.A5994@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000522222438.A11092@sharmas.dhs.org> <20000523114956.A39397@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000522234412.A11711@sharmas.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:10 AM 5/23/2000, Doug Barton wrote: > This is one of the fundamental flaws in most of the arguments put forth >on this topic so far. There IS NO total amount of money to be made. The >opportunity to expand the pie is always present, Unfortunately, there is a flaw in THIS argument, too: it goes to the other extreme. While the pie can be enlarged, it is not infinitely expandable. The correct perspective lies somewhere in between the two extremes. And, unfortunately, it lies closer to the other extreme than to the one you promote. There is a definite limit to the rate at which the pie can grow, especially with the GPL actively eliminating opportunities for new ventures. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message