Re: An attempt (probably in vain)

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From: Joe Buck
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1992 20:20

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In article <NEERI.92Jan17101553@iis.ethz.ch>, neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes:
|> 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 ?

While I'm not completely sure I agree with the Gnu vision of the world, there
is an answer to this one: programming would become a service profession.  If
a user has a problem to solve, and no existing software will solve the problem,
he or she hires a programmer to implement a solution.  Once implemented, the
work produced would be sharable -- no one would have exclusive rights to it.
There'd still be a lot of work for programmers; it would be a less lucrative
profession, that's for sure.



-- 
Joe Buck	jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu

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