Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 11:10:38 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My opinion about freebsd (fwd) Message-ID: <19970713111038.QH06129@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199707130818.SAA01309@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>; from David Nugent on Jul 13, 1997 18:18:37 %2B1000 References: <199707130633.CAA20588@psilocin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <199707130818.SAA01309@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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As David Nugent wrote: > But the tendancy is invariably to consider software "cheap" and the > hardware the only serious concern. But this isn't the case. Of course, it isn't. But unlike almost anything else on this planet that required an equal amount of work to be produced, the efforts that went into software can be replicated without much costs. This is what it makes easy to `share' software, for mutual benefit. Like perhaps most of the other people here, i don't care very much whether this `sharing' is done in an unequal way, i. e. there are a number of people who only benefit and don't contribute. Most of the developers here do it for fun, and/or for their own income if they found a niche where the latter can go along with sharing software. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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