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In article <C1FBoE.Gy6@news2.cis.umn.edu>, ozzello@a1 (Anthony Ozzello) writes:

|>My whole take on this argument that its impossible to write good new
|>innovative compilers because of GNU is this: write your compiler and
|>integrate it with gcc and release it to the world free. Why does
|>everything have to be so profit oriented? You want to do something,
|>so just do it and we'll all marvel at your innovation and use it too.
|>What better payment could you ask for?
|>Tony


  Why does everyone have to be so profit oriented?
  I don't know.  Maybe it has something to do with the fact that
food costs money.  Maybe it has to do with the fact that very few 
programmers out there have the luxury of sitting around like bums 
and haveing a college foot the bill for their intellectual interests
and whims.
  I have a question for all you GNU/socialists/commmunists out there.
If the GNU idea is so great, why don't we apply it to other parts of the
economy?  Like, say, woodworking.  Think about it.  You're a cabinet
maker; you love to work with your hands and create works of art and use
out of wood.  Why should you do such a thing for as filthy a reason as
money.  Surely, you should just give away your work for free.  And how
about authors.  Authors must surely love what they do.  Why don't they
just give away copies of their work.  Don't forget manicurists.  Your
friendly neighborhood manicurist should just sit on a bench down town
and give free manicures to anybody who walks by.
  Let's take this to its logical extreme. We get Slick Willy to declare
that from now on we are a nation of artists.  There is art in everything
anybody does, from making sculptures to picking up dog doodee.  We just
let everybody work for universities and do whatever they please.  We'll
be one big, socialist family, giving away the fruits of our labor for
free.

  I find it interesting that when a poster makes a very cogent point
about how much better than GCC would a compiler have to be in order
for you to purchase it, not one poster that has followed up has come
up with an answer.  All they do is harp about what a wonderful thing
GCC is because it "ups the ante" or "establishes a floor" or weeds out
the bad software out there.  But not one has answered the poster's point.
That's because they cannot.  The point is true, as you would know if you
took a single course in economics.


Larry Denys
sl1yn@paradise.declab.usu.edu