>>"Ian" == Ian D Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ian> And yes, I do find it condescending. Particularly the reference to
Ian> 'unwashed masses' and the general attitude of 'I have done this thing
Ian> because it pleases me. You should be content that I allow you to
Ian> benefit from my labor.'
So my motivation for working on free software (it pleases me,
and provides me with a stable box I can use) is condescending? Am I
now obligated to you for using my labour? Am I now to profess a
desire to please you just because you use software that I built, even
when the goal was never to please end users, but to get a nice
software for me and my collaborators?
If the choice is between condescension and false
obsequiousness, I guess I shall indeed chose the former.
manoj
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the downtrodden, would naturally evolve from dynamic, articulate,
spirited awareness of the great goals for Man and the society he
conspired to erect. David Baker, paraphrasing Harold Urey, in "The
History of Manned Space Flight"
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