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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: intellectual property and shit
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 12:19:30 +0100
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne
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- In <1992Dec14.004749.19378@nosc.mil> healy@nosc.mil (Mike Healy) writes:
-
- >Will everyone advocating people to write software for the art of it
- >with no concern about making making a living please raise their hands?
-
- >Thank you. Now will those of you in this group who have children to
- >provide for please raise your hands :-)
-
- Please. To say "Someone's got to feed his children's mouths, so
- he must have a right to get paid for doing X" really doesn't mean
- anything. X, that happens to be programming in this case, could
- as well be working in a factory or being in the mafia. Not that I
- think any of these are comparable in many ways, just to explain
- why I don't see the fact that someone has children to care for
- having any relevance regarding the justification of his way of
- making money.
-
- Greetinx, Jan
-
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