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- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: Since when has programming been free? (was Re: Time to boycott Photo CD
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 18:17:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep02.181754.9887@kithrup.COM>
- References: <FRIEDMAN.92Aug29214928@nutrim <FRIEDMAN.92Sep1184721@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1992Sep2.071820.4483@dmc.com>
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- In article <1992Sep2.071820.4483@dmc.com> munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe) writes:
- >I beg your pardon, but programming has NEVER been such a career. It has ALWAYS
- >cost money, until recently LOTS of money, to indulge in a programming career.
-
- Excuse me? Are you intentionally dense, or is it a matter of genetics? Noah
- wrote:
-
- In article <FRIEDMAN.92Sep1184721@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu>, friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
- >> In article <1992Aug31.134159.9893@pica.army.mil> SteveWall@aol.com (Steve Wall) writes:
- >>>If a programmer doesn't like
- >>>the way patents affect his freedom, he's welcome to find a career more
- >>>suitable to his ethical/political standards.
- >> Once upon a time, programming was such a career. Why should we have to
- >> throw it away?
-
- Not that it was free, but that a programmer could work without the bullshit
- that has been coming out of the patent office recently.
-
- >Then came the 70s and, thanks to DEC, machine prices dropped by a factor of 10
- >or so.
-
- Yeah, those microcomputers available in the '70's for under $5k had
- *nothing* to do with it, or with the growing popularity of programming.
- Nope, nosiree.
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how
- sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around."
- -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
-