That, and I originally composed the message pre-Nazi, I just needed to wait to send it for DNS to update because the listserver is checking SPF on HELO, and I had the sending machine set too restrictively for that. Of course, that particular interpretation of Godwin's law makes it impossible to discuss world history from 1933-1945 on a mailing list. On 10/18/2011 08:41 AM, kelly wrote: > 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 > <https://mce_host/display_enter?force_room=_MAIL_?recp=random@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 > <https://mce_host/display_enter?force_room=_MAIL_?recp=tclug-list@mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > (, 0 bytes) Download <mimepart_download/0> > > > > > > This body part will be downloaded on demand.