Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 18:14:15 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000513181415.00890300@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20000514041848.K22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <391DDB3E.8DFFD8D0@mindspring.com> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <391DDB3E.8DFFD8D0@mindspring.com>
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At 04:18 14-05-2000 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >by borrowing ideas you don't decrease the number of ideas >in the world. Sure you do! If you expect your ideas to be stolen with no rewards to you, soon you will stop coming up with new ideas. Not because you lost your ability but because you have no motivation. This is precisely why former Communist countries were such a failure economically. There was no reward for innovation, so there was no innovation. Now we see a surge of creativity coming out of there. It was not born overnight. It was always there, but it stayed dormant. Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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