From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 23 5:12:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE22037B977 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 05:12:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA81398; Tue, 23 May 2000 14:12:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Arun Sharma Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software References: <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org> <20000522170335.B94994@azazel.zer0.org> <20000523085510.A5994@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000522222438.A11092@sharmas.dhs.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 23 May 2000 14:12:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: Arun Sharma's message of "Mon, 22 May 2000 22:24:38 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Arun Sharma writes: > The claim that "for profit software" and "closed source software" are > different is not supported by market realities. Neither RMS nor ESR > have come up with a viable economic model which can support all the > programmers being supported by the current closed source software economy. Well, Eivind had a good one the other day: rank all programmers by ability, then take the bottom two-thirds out into the woods and shoot them. The remaining third will be a) delivered from having to spend most of their time fixing other people's crappy code and b) very motivated to stay on top of the profession, just in case we decide to do it all over again. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message