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Rob, > Hey, can you help me cheat some programmers out of their wages? We all > know they get paid too much and should be flipping burgers instead. Saying that open source is cheating programmers out of money is like saying that Midrange.com is robbing trade rags. Or that me providing help to people on RPG400-L is robbing consulting firms who you might otherwise hire to make your programs work. If a programmer wants to write software and give it away because he wants to help other people, that's not a bad thing. Doing things for other people out of goodness and a desire to make things better is not a bad thing. I could understand your attitude if we were talking abotu software piracy, where people charge for their work and it gets stolen. But open source? These are things that people WANTED to do for no pay.
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