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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-13 06:46:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:46:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3F3A3649.4010606@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1060782383 14705 129.241.83.78 (13 Aug 2003 13:46:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:46:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41389 Date: 2003-08-13T13:46:23+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Probably, more accurately, they were not "defrauded" of anything. They > voluntarily gave up rights to something that had potential value. When No, they still have their copyrights. > the actual value was realized (and who is going to dispute that there is > "value" in Linux?) they were out in the cold by their own doing. Nobody > put a gun to their head and made them do it. If they were "defrauded" at > all, it was possibly in being "seduced" by the anti-capitalist rhetoric > that occasionally surrounds the GPL and its more ardent adherents. You percieve the thousands of contribiutors as *one* thinking being. It is more a for of reverse "collective irrasjonality"[*]. But the development of Linux is far from over and thousands of voluntareers are still working on it. [*] in the meaning "collective rasjonality". -- �I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet. So who am I to judge.� - The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radioplay)