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messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
>- ever heard of thousands of people making a living, providing for their
>  families and supporting the economy thanks to Bill Gates?  
You make a living thanks to Bill Gates? I don't want to be in your shoes!
Seriously, this argument keeps coming up in discussions about free 
software. It all revolves around a perceived desirability of job creation.
I do *not* want a job to be created for me. If my options are to spend
the rest of my days doing helpdesk support for MSDOS PC's, or to quit the
computer business and become a janitor, I'll choose the latter option. Of
course, the computer bizz is my trade, so I prefer to have interesting
work using interesting tools. Be they freeware (thanks, rms, for Emacs
and gcc!) or commercial (yes, I *still* like to work on Suns or Macs).

And finally, the best work in this industry still is consulting. Which can
equally well be for commercial software, or for freeware.
-- 
Bert Driehuis, driehuis@ooc.uva.nl
Morssingel 243, 2312 EX Leiden, The Netherlands.