Sorry, I did not mean FSF need be a commodity. I like to do it as a
hobbyist. Also would just like to put everything I do or code in net for
free (as in free beer and free speech). What I mean is how could you
possibly interefere with somebody else who is also earnign a lively hood
with it, of course without interefering with other's right and not taking
things for granted.
Take the case of arts. I read Marquez, Kundera, Pamuk, Neruda, Chullikkad,
Anand and so on. I like them so much as to wonder and adore them. They might
be doing it for "arts sake" alone. I don't know. But I can't argue to put up
a ban on some XYZ series who are doing it for a life's sake. Can I?
On 5/11/07, doxa_at_sancharnet.in <doxa_at_sancharnet.in> wrote:
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> --------Original Message -------
> But there need be a demonstratable model as to how he/she/it could do it
> without atleast without yearning for a daily bread which essentialy
>
> We had been discussing this issue over and over again. There are a vast
> majority of people who can contribute to *building Free Software* without
> getting overly concerned about *daily bread* - people who are students,
> educational and research institutions (all of whose daily bread is not
> directly linked with development of commercial software). Free Software can
> at times be perceived as a form of *arts*, which make an individual highly
> creative - guaranteeing her of better prospects in future. Then there are
> hobbyists - who take it up voluntarily (a charged-up politician can go on
> hunger strike - defying our common sense, isn't it?) or those who has been
> gripped of a different *cognitive perception* and subsequent orientation
> leading to different actions - which may again defy common-sense.
>
>
> The fatal *circle of arguments* that you are pointing to is the one
> hinting that (1) *software* is an essential commodity which *needs to be
> traded* and (2) which is closely tied to individual's livelihood -
> especially, if she happens to be an IT professional. This is pretty much the
> same way in which proprietary establishments look at *patents*.
>
>
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> >
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