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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:35:10PM +0100, Simon Robert wrote: > so the guy I used to work for, a one man (and me) business, who had > written a massive application for managing, stock controling, billing > etc a certain type of specialist retail business and whose not had any > sort of holiday in years and just has a normal type income is an evil > barsteward and anyone who fancies it should be able to take a copy of > his system and use it for free? Are you saying no one should be able to > make a living from software? Only if the guy you used to work for is a software corporation abusing the copyright laws for his personal gain. I don't see how you can take my complaints about "sending the board of directors on holidy to the Caribbean for six months of the year" as applying to someone who hasn't had any kind of holiday in years. I'm not opposed to anybody making a living from software - I'd like to do it myself - but I *am* opposed to people earning hundreds of thousands a year by exploiting consumers. (As I've said before, though, and as Ben pointed out, proprietary software is not the only way to make money from software) -- Benjamin A'Lee :: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ "All great truths begin as blasphemies." - George Bernard Shaw
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