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____/ Homer on Thursday 30 Jun 2011 15:05 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Chris Ahlstrom spake thusly:
>> Peter KÃhlmann wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>> Bert Hyman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sounds like you're the one with the problem.
>>>> Good luck.
>>>
>>> Hardly. I try to avoid like the plague to help anyone outside the
>>> family with windows-problems.
>>> Either those people learn to overcome the shitty problems with
>>> windows by themselves, or they can actually *pay* someone for doing
>>> it
>>
>> What, no Windows Charity? cases for you, Peter?
>>
>> No matter. Bill and Melinda's Gates Foundation does enough
>> Windows Charity? for all of us!
>
> Hehe, yeah.
>
> We've had this conversation before in COLA. It's not exactly difficult
> to understand why it makes sense to give something away for free to an
> altruistic endeavour like Free Software, but refuse to do so or insist
> on remuneration when it's a commercial enterprise. What exactly is the
> motivation to help somebody else's selfishly-motivated profit-oriented
> activity, unless you're being paid to do so?
>
> The fact that commercial enterprises can /also/ use the results of our
> altruistic work is purely coincidental and irrelevant. It's /intended/
> to benefit everyone without prejudice, unlike the proprietary works of
> commercial enterprises. If companies build their businesses using Free
> Software then ... great. We'll even help them, because we know it will
> be reciprocated in kind. OTOH, what exactly can I expect to get from a
> company like Microsoft, if I give it my time; money; effort; expertise
> and support for free, for a product no one except Microsoft has rights
> to? It'd be like voluntary slavery. It just doesn't make any sense.
>
> If someone needs help with proprietary software, they should go to the
> company they bought it from, since it is of no benefit to anyone else.
> Personally the only help I give people with proprietary software is an
> offer to replace it with alternative Free Software. If they don't like
> that idea ... then they know where to go.
Maybe it's because people call it "fixing the computer". We need
to change the wording to "covering up Microsoft's mess".
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