Gregory Ewing wrote: [...]
> * Charging money for copies of software is not the only way > to make money from programming. You can charge for support > services. You can charge for writing custom one-off > software. There are people who make a good living from > doing these things. Microsoft not only demands to be paid for writing the software *and* maintaining it, but they also demand that you pay to have it upgraded every couple of years after it "mysteriously" becomes exponentially more laggy and exploit prone than usual. "Hmm, i wonder how that happened?" *SCRATCHES-HEAD* *LOOKS-AT-INSTRUMENT-PANEL* "Oh noes!" O_O "The software fuel tank is almost _empty_!" How else will they convince you to buy the latest copy of windoze 95? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
