From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 23 21:40:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84F2337BBC6 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 21:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 45336 invoked from network); 24 May 2000 04:40:09 -0000 Received: from sys3.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.27) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 24 May 2000 04:40:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 29375 invoked by uid 211); 24 May 2000 04:40:06 -0000 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 10:10:06 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Doug Barton Cc: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Arun Sharma Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Message-ID: <20000524101006.A29351@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <4.3.1.2.20000523191700.049c5260@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug@gorean.org on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 06:34:55PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.31 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Barton said on May 23, 2000 at 18:34:55: > On Tue, 23 May 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > My purpose in posting to this thread at all was merely to point > out that there is another view, so that people who don't have a background > in economics are not tempted to take the "There's only one pie, and it's > always going to be the same size" argument seriously. And this, by the way, is the archetypical communist argument. They want to redistribute wealth because they think you can only become rich at the expense of someone else. R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message