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In article <1992Feb4.194002.25273@uunet.uu.net> kyle@uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones) writes:
>Sounds reasonable to me.  If you want to hoard software, you have
>to buy into the hoarder philosophy wholesale and hire a mess of
>lawyers.  On the other hand if you`'re willing to turn your
>softweare loose, then you can forget the lawyers and get on with
>writing more software.

What ever happened to the concept of compromise?  Is the world
really destined to be run by extremists who *know* they are right?
I like to write software - I live for writing software.  I also
have this strange desire to support my family.  Sometimes the latter
desire may run counter to my moral philosophies, but I can't say that
it does when I'm trying to making a living selling binary-only 
distributions for $300.  People look at big closed corporations and
call them evil and then call everyone who sells software evil.
I'm the evil hoarder who doesn't release his source.  Yet that
ignores the fact that I regularly release pieces of my source in
answer to net questions, that I release source libraries to the net.
None of this matters you see, because the world is divided into
those who are hoarders and evil and those who are not.  And since
I don't give away source with my binaries I fall into the first
category.

The world is not black and white.  It's not full of absolutes.
And extremism does nothing but piss people off.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.