From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 7 11: 5: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A09155BB for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:05:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA12923; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:04:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Michael Lucas Cc: schwenk@math.udel.edu (Peter Schwenk), advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: license (no longer Re: uptimes, Woo Hoo) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Jan 2000 09:13:00 EST." <200001071413.JAA17543@blackhelicopters.org> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 11:04:52 -0800 Message-ID: <12921.947271892@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > But what do *we* get out of it? Simply the satisfaction of knowing > your work is in a photocopier's brain? See my previous posting. What "we" get out of it is a better world to live in, more or less, because good code is not prevented from making it into the mainstream products which affect all of us. It also gives us a better evolutionary pace for the software industry as a whole. What would you prefer to see, 50 programmers at Apple all beavering away on reinventing the underlying operating system or simply using our stuff and putting their time into extending the boundries of user interface design instead? Even if you never happen to use an Apple yourself, you can bet that things like "Aqua" are going to motivate a lot of the rest of the industry to improve their own interfaces, and eventually that evolution will indeed affect you (hopefully for the better). That's what it's all about, right? Evolution. Which we haven't had nearly enough of in the software industry. The HAL 9000 project has slipped all of its ship dates and I still have no idea when we're going to meet him, which sucks. I'm getting really sick of this keyboard. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message