Invocation of ESR and or RSM cancels Godwin's law, but only on LUG lists. Kelly > Tue Oct 18 2011 08:27:20 AM CDT from "Mark Katerberg" ><mark.katerberg at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux and capitalist >ideals > > > >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 >> > > > > > (, 0 bytes) Download > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111018/e95a8aa3/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111018/e95a8aa3/attachment-0001.ksh>