On Saturday 26 August 2006 20:00, suse@rio.vg wrote:
This guy wanted money. He saw what he did as work that he deserved compensation for. This is the wrong attitude if you ever want to code Free Software. You have to think of yourself more of an artist than a bricklayer.
Ah yes, and artists as we all know don't have to pay rent, and get all their food for free Words simply fail me Free means "devoid of restrictions", not "at no cost" in the Free Software Foundation definition. When Richard Stallman did his emacs thing, he sold it. For money. Lots of money. Oh the horror, this greedy guy wanted MONEY
You're right, in that developers are often underappreciated. Demands for support should simply be filed under the delete key. It costs nothing to simply ignore them. "If you have a problem, fix it yourself" is a cornerstone of open source.
Not really, that is suicidally stupid, and reminiscent of the 1337 attitude that reigns among people who don't really know all that much but like to pretend they do. Cooperation is the corner stone, nothing else