Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 09:42:46 08/08/02
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On August 08, 2002 at 09:37:03, José Carlos wrote: >On August 07, 2002 at 18:33:25, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On August 07, 2002 at 16:48:38, Carlos Pesce wrote: >> >>>Ive never replayed Uri Blass posts but..its enough. >>>Its a lie that the programmer that give to US his engine for free is because he >>>know that its weak..please, Mr. Blass, speak for yourself, not for all the >>>programmers. >> >>I did not speak for all the programmers. >> >> The GNU project, Linux (that its much better OS that MS), show to >>>us that theres a "philosophie" besides them: the knowledge must be for all the >>>human race. For you all is money, all can be selled, all can be bought. >> >>I did not say it. >>I do not think that people are going to pay for movei today. >> >>I did not say that all is money. >>If programmers do not want to make money by their program they can sell it and >>give the money to poor people. >> >>I think that poor people need the money more than users of chess programs and >>users of chess programs can pay for them so I do not see the loss of knowledge >>for the human race(espacially when the source code is not free). > > Easy solution. Each time you download a free program send some money to poor >people. That will prevent the programmer to keep the money, and poor people will >be helped. Yes, why the programmer should have the burden of keeping track of the money and accounting? The burden should be on the user. I think that we could give a name to this: "charityware". On the other hand, I wonder how many people downloaded Gaviota. I can estimate how much money I contribute it indirectly to charity and deduct that from taxes :-) Miguel > Then, try to convince other people to do the same as you. > As you see, free programs and helping poor people are not incompatible. > > José C.
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