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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:52:47 +0000 (UTC)
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Marin David Condic wrote:
> That said, let me now clarify: I write software for a living. That's how
> I pay the bills. I trade my labor in exchange for fungible assets and
> everyone wins. Hence, I have a tendency to not want to work for free so
> that some other party can make money from my labor. That is a kind of
> "charity" to capitalists that I don't feel the need to make. If I'm 
> going to work for free, perhaps there are more deserving recipients of 
> my charity than RedHat?

Well me for instance. Not that I need charity, but I and thousands other
normal people benifit from what you might want to make in your spare
time and publish. At any rate if I wanted to install RedHat on my
computer I need not pay for it. The benifits of RedHat and other
companies is that they help improve Linux.


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�I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet.
 So who am I to judge.�
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