From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 24 21:42:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43B3137B422 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 59697 invoked by uid 100); 25 Apr 2001 04:42:15 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15078.21927.481166.447365@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 23:42:15 -0500 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Terry Lambert , dan@langille.org Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010424221210.04403f00@localhost> References: <200104231926.MAA07119@usr08.primenet.com> <15073.19371.99471.534039@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010424221210.04403f00@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass types: > At 02:44 PM 4/23/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > >Fortunately for us, real people (i.e. - not us geeks) don't buy > >software; they buy solutions. > > True. > > >Once you shift your focuse from "Gotta > >make money providing software" to "Gotta make money using software to > >provide solutions", it isn't nearly so bad. > > Non sequitur. You make the implicit (and false) assumption that > packaged or conventionally licensed software is not a "solution." The assumption is indeed false. Which means it's a good thing that I didn't actually make that assumption. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message