Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 17:55:12 06/18/04
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On June 18, 2004 at 20:35:24, Ed Trice wrote: > >> >>Do people really want to pay you money so they can spend a lot of their time >>developing a program to promote your idea and make you rich? >> >>It sounds like a bit of a bad joke to me, I'd certainly ask for a solid pay >>check from you before making the first keypress! >> >>I actually do some work for an inventor currently, nice guy, but _he_ is of >>course paying _me_ for helping _him_ become rich. >> > >The point is, you don't have to do anything. No but posting here with all your advertisement it feels like you're asking me to, and at the same time asking me to pay for it. I think that is disrespectful to all the open source and freeware programmers on this board. It gets annoying too in the long run. >Nobody was forced to buy Microsoft stock at $3.50 a share in 1978. > >Only the first 100 licenses or so are going to be practically given away at the >lower rates for the 15-year tenure. > >After that...you all can kick yourselves all you want. Shares do not have to be renegotiated everytime they increase their value. -S.
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