🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <MIB.92Jan16160732@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
>In article <7sLLeB3w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (en font terrible) writes:
>
>   mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
>   > The purpose of the FSF is not to write software that everyone can use,
>   > but to promote the creation of a world in which we avoid the
>   > tremendous costs associated with the current methods of selling and
>   > marketing commercial software.
>
>   What tremendous costs?
>
>Here are three experiments you can conduct:
>
>1: Go to a PC software store and count the number of dismal editors,
>compilers, and debuggers.  While there are a few shining lights, the
>others still manage to make a living, precisely because of the
>software copyright system.  They are lousy and incompetent
>programmers, and our society continues to support them.  That is a
>pretty large social cost.

This system is still cheaper than having these incompetent programmers living
in the streets and robbing old ladies.

But seriously, could you please give us a picture of how you imagine the world
when everyone would distribute everything under the GPL ? Am I wrong in
imagining that programmers would become pariahs in our heartless, capitalist
world ?

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                      neeri@iis.ethz.ch
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