From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 6 11:29:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from yowie.cc.uq.edu.au (yowie.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEE337B71D for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:29:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from s337240@student.uq.edu.au) Received: from student.uq.edu.au (s337240@student.uq.edu.au [130.102.87.136]) by yowie.cc.uq.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA17309; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:28:41 +1000 (GMT+1000) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 05:28:40 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Trent Waddington To: Robert Clark Cc: Brett Glass , Rahul Siddharthan , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , David Johnson , Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again In-Reply-To: <20010306100616.B45802@darkstar.gte.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org www.paypal.com On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Robert Clark wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:17:06AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > > At 01:49 PM 3/5/2001, Robert Clark wrote: > > > > >I just recently heard a statement that helped me understand > > >why the Grateful Dead allowed taping at their concerts. > > > > > >The statement went something like "At the end of the day, > > >after the performance was over, Jerry went home from work > > >like anyone else." > > > > > >Apparently, the band made a living "performing" their work. > > > > This was only one of their many revenue streams. They enjoyed > > large royalties from T-shirts, posters, and other regalia, as > > well as from their published albums. While their concerts were > > profitable, Bill Graham and other promoters made most of the money. > > > > --Brett > > > > And there is a message in there somewhere. Is Mr Stallman a > promoter? In that analogy, would Linus be like Jerry? > > I don't begrudge RedHat or Walnut Creek their living. But > their promotion isn't what I'm interested in. > > Someone who is financially responsible needs to setup as a > nonprofit micropayment broker. > > In the same way that I can toss money into a street performers > hat, it would be nice to be able to be able to contribute > small amounts of money to small projects. > > As long as there is no alternative to the "feast or famine" > ways of doing business, its going to a black and white world. > > Commercial companies grabbing everything they can, and open > source refugees moving from inspiration to inspiration. > (Dodging lawsuits all the while.) > > [RC] > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message