From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 19 13:40:20 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 3E7FC37B424 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:40:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 64161 invoked by uid 100); 19 Apr 2001 20:40:13 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15071.19757.648512.704094@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:40:13 -0500 To: Brett Glass Cc: Mike Meyer , dan@langille.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010419143024.045d2100@localhost> References: <200104192013.f3JKDfm73628@ns1.unixathome.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419140150.045176b0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419143024.045d2100@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: > >> I'm a programmer. I get paid for my work. And by no means can it be > >> considered a slave wage. > >I'd say the same thing myself. And, contrary to the nonsense that > >Brett was spouting, it doesn't matter whether I'm working on GPL'ed > >softare or not. > It will. Because the GPLed software will hurt your ability to make > money as a programmer. This is the stated purpose of the GPL. > > In the short run, shortsighted companies may pay you for writing GPLed > code. But companies that produce GPLed code will not and cannot > survive. In the long run the GPL will destroy the company and hence > your job. If I were you, I wouldn't trade a few dollars in the short > term to destroy my long term prospects as a professional. That only applies to companies that can't see beyond the "product" model for revenue streams. 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