I thought Godwin's was invoked... doesn't that mean this political argument can leave the list? On Oct 18, 2011 8:05 AM, "Daniel Taylor" <random at argle.org> wrote: > Honestly, I thing that ESR's take on the motivations for participating > in Free software development are misguided and apply only to a minority > of the contributors. > > I make changes to Free Software projects when they fail to meet my needs > in some specific way that I can remedy. I offer my changes back to the > community so that others might benefit from them. > > Looking at many of the core developers for the same projects, they > started the same way. No ego boosts, no "noosphere", just a task that > needed doing and a willingness to share the results with others. > > > Maybe it's me that's the odd one here, but I see it as a perfectly > rational transaction, programming time in exchange for working code. > > Neither capitalist nor communist, but something more closely resembling > a mass-barter system where most of the participants are making a living > by using the software that they work on rather than by buying or selling > the software itself. > > Obviously there are other layers to the Free Software ecosystem, but > without that root the rest doesn't really work out so well. > > -- > Dan > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111018/63c88073/attachment.html>