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Re: [News] How Cattle Effect Hurts Free Software

  • Subject: Re: [News] How Cattle Effect Hurts Free Software
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:22:31 +0000
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> But Everyone Uses It
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Ah, the "everyone else has it" myth!
> | 
> | [...]
> | 
> | You don't have to feel guilty about taking something you didn't pay 
> | for. And you don't have to shell out a single cent. Welcome to 
> | freedom! 
> `----
> 
> http://goodcomputing.blogspot.com/2007/11/but-everyone-uses-it-ah-everyone-else_06.html

Free Software should be about /contribution/ though, not leeching. That
is after all what makes it work. And contribution need not be technical
either, something as simple as writing a review, translating a document
into another language, or submitting a bug report, will suffice.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
|  make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
|  - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
`----

Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) on sky, running kernel 2.6.22.9-91.fc7
 02:21:22 up 2 days, 23:14,  2 users,  load average: 0.38, 0.37, 0.46

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