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Re: induction, deduction, conduction?

Author:Dave Winer
Posted:9/18/2000; 9:25:19 AM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 9/18/2000
Msg #:21466 (In response to 21465)
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I certainly don't understand all that you say here, but consider this.

On the FoRK mail list, Lucas Gonze said: "Don't know if it's about being a benevolent dictator so much as a conscientious slave. Open source is a lot of hours for no pay."

I suppose there's no arguing with the truth of that statement.

But would it be safe to conclude that this is only true of open source?

I would argue not. I have worked a lot of hours on Frontier, a commercial product, with no pay, for twelve years. I'd say that puts me squarely in the "conscientious slave" club.

Another person on the FoRK list, presumably a programmer and therefore a mathematician called my product "closed source".

That's laughable! How could it be that my product is closed source when I ship so much source?

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