From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-18 04:12:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!newsfeed.cs.wisc.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <1060696097.54858@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F3A306D.4050302@noplace.com> <3F3B8339.7060404@noplace.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:10:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.41.43 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1061205038 144.132.41.43 (Mon, 18 Aug 2003 21:10:38 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 21:10:38 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41675 Date: 2003-08-18T11:10:38+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > People are absolutely free to go do charity work for corporations if > they like. I won't stop them. If they want to come over to my house and > mow my lawn next weekend, they can do that to. Personally, I'd rather > give my charity time to more deserving recipients and give my software > development time to those who will offer me compensation. But that's > just me. :-) It's quite possible that the people who are developing Linux et al feel that it is a charitable work. There are a number of poorer countries that would be quite happy to be able to GPL software at the "right price". Perhaps you could view commercial explotation of this software as bad, but perhaps it could also be viewed as a good thing if it helps create a better product. Dale -- dstanbro@spam.o.matic.bigpond.net.au