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- From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <2B5192CA.B54E@tct.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:31:22 GMT
- References: <BASHFORD.93Jan7194947@zippy.scripps.edu> <2B4F312E.E292@tct.com> <C0oDJ1.4u9@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1ireovINNdsn@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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- According to tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith):
- >Uh, nearly everyone I've heard of who wrote a spreadsheet was a programmer!
-
- People will do for money lots of things they won't do for fun. Those
- who write (as opposed to maintain) free software generally do it for
- fun, not for money. And there's not much money in giving things away.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- "you make me want to break the laws of time and space / you make me
- want to eat pork / you make me want to staple bagels to my face /
- and remove them with a pitchfork" -- Weird Al Yankovic, "You Make Me"
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