From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 5 21:25: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (Aphex.newgold.net [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90C2437B50D for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 21:25:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 2126 invoked by uid 1000); 6 May 2001 04:22:48 -0000 Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 00:22:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: Joe Warner Cc: Brett Glass , "G. Adam Stanislav" , Subject: Re: Is Brett Glass to easy on RMS? In-Reply-To: <01050522221201.00681@blackmirror.xmission.com> 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 I work at least 60 hours a week, and I don't get paid. The fun and excitement of coding just to code. =P -- [ Joseph Mallett ] [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ] [ Proud Open/Free/Net/4.4BSD User; C Programmer; Mad ] [ www.xMach.org ] Support my computer addiction buy something from http://www.jmallett.org On Sat, 5 May 2001, Joe Warner wrote: > > Yes, it's certainly true that they pay well but that in itself comes with a > price. In order to get paid well, you basically have to sell your soul > to them. A guy I work with said that he has a neighbor who works for > them and a typical work week is 60 hours and it's not because he's > a work-a-holic, it's because it's standard policy. > > > Joe > > > > On Sat, 05 May 2001, Joseph Mallett wrote: > > And FSF's Own the world is not a threat why? At least MS doesn't want to > > force anyone in industry to work for nothing -- they pay well. > > > > FSF wants programmers to die out. I second Brett's recommendation of > > 'Hackers', it explains the big bad crazy man quite well. > > > > -- > > [ Joseph Mallett ] > > [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ] > > [ Proud Open/Free/Net/4.4BSD User; C Programmer; Mad ] [ www.xMach.org ] > > > > Support my computer addiction buy something from http://www.jmallett.org > -- > Joe Warner > Daemon News > Bringing BSD Together > Daemon News E-Zine http://www.daemonnews.org > Daily Daemon News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > Print Magazine http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message