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You're joking, right Scott?


| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Scott Klement
| Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 12:25 AM

| 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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