Re: Are we in this for ourselves?
Hi,
Bruce> So, please folks, less "me" and more "the world".
I think that this is not a workable Idea. Altruinsm is not
something that survives long past the glow of making a speech about
how helpful and altruistic one is. One needs a motive, and indentured
labour for the teeming masses does not cut it.
People put in hard work writing code and maintaining
packages. I know of may who suffer symptomes of sleep
deprivation. What's in it for us? We do it cause we like it. Any
other reason fails to stand the test of human nature; as such; giving
away our work is stretching it.
The thing that drives us is that we feel a sense of community
with people like us, who are like minded enough and have made the
same commitments we have: to produce free software; and they have
gone beyond lip service and actually come forth to stand up and be
counted. We are not islands. We are a community. And outsiders fail
to realize this.
If you think that people who write free code for themselves
and like minded people lack an ability to work together, you have
become so estranged from us and lost so much touch with the community
it is scary. You certainly do not speak for me.
We do, however, object to being exploited: you should not take
my work and make money off it. You cannot expect to take my
volunteered efforts, and expect to order me around, and treat me with
disrespect as though I am an indentured labourer. How dare you?
What would happen if Atlas Shrugged?
I do not care about the mission of SPI; but one person does
not speak about the goal of Debian.
I, for one, am offended by the patronizing tone of Bruces
message.
manoj
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