Posted by: Anonymous
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on September 28, 2008 05:55 AM
Mr Stallman clearly is a great software engineer, but his social views are inspired by marxist zeal.
The US and Europe are free societies, meaning that you are free to give away your work or charge for your work. Mr Stallman thinks it offending that some people choose the latter approach. I fail to see why it is wrong for software engineers to want to make a decent living and pay for a family by developing software. I strongly suspect Mr Stallman would solve this problem by a huge socialist subsidisation bureaucracy.
Why doesn't he call his thing "Communist Software Manifesto" ?
Moderate people can just take the middle way of using less Microsoft products, if they feel offended by that company. Also, they can contribute financially and with their work to interesting projects of all kinds, including textbooks. But moderate people hate to be forced by radicals into their purist ways of life !
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 88.66.95.3] on September 28, 2008 05:55 AMThe US and Europe are free societies, meaning that you are free to give away your work or charge for your work. Mr Stallman thinks it offending that some people choose the latter approach. I fail to see why it is wrong for software engineers to want to make a decent living and pay for a family by developing software. I strongly suspect Mr Stallman would solve this problem by a huge socialist subsidisation bureaucracy.
Why doesn't he call his thing "Communist Software Manifesto" ?
Moderate people can just take the middle way of using less Microsoft products, if they feel offended by that company. Also, they can contribute financially and with their work to interesting projects of all kinds, including textbooks. But moderate people hate to be forced by radicals into their purist ways of life !
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