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In article <361CD4BD.CA04E7B3@hotmail.com> pd@hotmail.com "pdohert" writes:
> Phil Hunt wrote:
> > However, you are wrong on your main point. People *are* writing
> > equivalents of Office for the love of it -- the Gnome and KDE
> > projects.
> 
> You too are missing part of that same point.  The writers of Gnome and
> KDE are writing this code for free, but that doesn't mean they get
> nothing for it.  There's more to be had and desired than money.  How
> about experience (that pays in a new job)?  How about fame and notoriety
> amongst the folk who use and develop Linux as a platform?  Maybe they
> think they'll go to heaven for doing such a "noble" deed.  The simple
> answer is that it isn't an entirely noble effort - they do get something
> out of it or they wouldn't do it.

Well, clearly that is true by definition. I'm currently writing
some Open Source software, and I'm doing it for a variety of reasons.

> Thank them for the free software but
> don't worship them (or the concept of freeware) as humanitarians.

If someone is a public benefactor, then they have still helped society
even if they did it for selfish motives.

Anyway, I don't believe in worshipping anyone, except the One True
God Linus.

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