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In article <khtqbnINN9gv@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>software should be free, and software developers should be paid by the
>government out of a software tax.  To prevent some of the traditional
>problems of socialism (if one is paid regardless of whether one produces,
>there's no incentive to produce), I presume that software developers would
>be paid based on their output.  As long as software developers are allowed

That doesn't avoid anything.  What about quality?

>Most customers don't really care about the source code, so market forces by

Right.

>include performance rather than available free software.  Thus, releasing
>source has to be done out of a sense of "rightness" about it, not greed.
>It has to come from the realization that there's a small segment of the
>customer base that's better served by providing source.

Okay. Then the issue is whether or not forcing source releases is
*bad* for the larger segment of the market that doesn't want source.
I think the jury is probably still out on this.  

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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.