Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:19:23 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au Cc: devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My opinion about freebsd (fwd) Message-ID: <199707130219.WAA10280@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199707130818.SAA01309@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> (message from David Nugent on Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:18:37 %2B1000)
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>> I wish everything could work by anarchy. > And so do I. Actually, a "free market" is the epitome of an 'anarchy', > or at least, an organised one. :-) Not the epitome. A working example, perhaps. >> But I think money will always >> be dominant. I don't think we can get free food the way we have >> free software, because software is inherently easy to copy, and >> restirctions that make software non-free are artificial. By >> contrast, food production has always been time-consuming. > Ouch. And developing software is not? Time for a reality check. There's a difference here. 'copying software' relates to 'food production' roughly as 'developing software' relates to 'discovering that milk tastes good'. > There's probably not much difference in the production rates either > way. The "artificial" restrictions are restrictions in distribution > (which is easy with software), but there are very real costs and > overheads involved in production of software per se. It isn't magic > - it isn't all done with mirrors. The development of software does cost. But once written, everybody can benefit at a very low cost. Happy hacking, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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