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<p>Invocation of ESR and or RSM cancels Godwin's law, but only on LUG lists.</p>
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<div class="message_header"><span>Tue Oct 18 2011 08:27:20 AM CDT</span> <span>from "Mark Katerberg" <mark.katerberg@gmail.com> </span> <span class="message_subject">Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux and capitalist ideals</span></div>
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<p>I thought Godwin's was invoked... doesn't that mean this political argument can leave the list?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 18, 2011 8:05 AM, "Daniel Taylor" <<a href="https://mce_host/display_enter?force_room=_MAIL_?recp=random@argle.org">random@argle.org</a>> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Honestly, I thing that ESR's take on the motivations for participating<br /> in Free software development are misguided and apply only to a minority<br /> of the contributors.<br /> <br /> I make changes to Free Software projects when they fail to meet my needs<br /> in some specific way that I can remedy. I offer my changes back to the<br /> community so that others might benefit from them.<br /> <br /> Looking at many of the core developers for the same projects, they<br /> started the same way. No ego boosts, no "noosphere", just a task that<br /> needed doing and a willingness to share the results with others.<br /> <br /> <br /> Maybe it's me that's the odd one here, but I see it as a perfectly<br /> rational transaction, programming time in exchange for working code.<br /> <br /> Neither capitalist nor communist, but something more closely resembling<br /> a mass-barter system where most of the participants are making a living<br /> by using the software that they work on rather than by buying or selling<br /> the software itself.<br /> <br /> Obviously there are other layers to the Free Software ecosystem, but<br /> without that root the rest doesn't really work out so well.<br /> <br /> --<br /> Dan<br /> _______________________________________________<br /> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br /> <a href="https://mce_host/display_enter?force_room=_MAIL_?recp=tclug-list@mn-linux.org">tclug-list@mn-linux.org</a><br /> <a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list" target="webcit01">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br /></blockquote>
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