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mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
> In article <k302eB16w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Lieutenant 030) 
> 
>    It's not a good reason to object to it either.  The reason guns are
>    objectionable is because they kill people.  Selling software does
>    not result in people dying.
> 
> Are you sure?  If the social effort wasted through the current
> software system were more usefully spent, who knows how many lives
> could be saved?

You could use the same argument against the space programme, TV, or publishing.

>    I must say I had expected a less fatuous and spurious analogy, even from
>    an FSF supporter.
> 
> And, since you seem to have descended into the realm of insults
> instead of discussion, you will merit no further responses from me.

Well sorry, but likening commercial software developers to gun-wielding
murderers isn't going to get you a polite response.


mathew

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