Linux World domination (was Re: [NCLUG] PC for Linux (Ubuntu))

[Chad Perrin]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 03:13:13PM -0500, Rob Bayerl wrote:
> On 9/19/08, Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> wrote:
> > It sounds to me like you would prefer to bar non-programmers from using
> > open source software.  I suspect that is not what you intended to
> > suggest, but it is what your words seem to convey as your position on the
> > issue.  Please clarify so we can clear up this misunderstanding (or
> > establish that it is not a misunderstanding).
> 
> I wrote it phrased that way for emphasis on the ideology that a person
> who is capable of contributing to free software but does not, and
> still uses free software is, essentially, leaching.  The concept that
> it is acceptable to freely benefit from the hard work of others and
> not allow anyone to freely benefit from your work is fundamentally
> wrong.  Not to say that such an act in any way violates any laws or
> breaks any agreement.
> 
> I am a non-programmer.  I am capable of programming, but I do not do
> it (regularly).  I also use free software.  Were I to write any
> program it would most assuredly be free.

Thanks for clearing that up.  It makes a lot more sense than the way I
read your initial statements on the matter.


> 
> > I don't believe that software or music should necessarily be free, in the
> > commercial sense of the term, but I do believe that once one has paid to
> > acquire possession of a software or music recording, one should then have
> > proprietary rights to that recording, as the default state of things.
> 
> Once again I agree if we consider music will stay commercially free.

Let's take this a step backward:

How do you feel about busking?

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
Power corrupts.  The command line corrupts absolutely.
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