From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs) Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 02:13:27 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <8564owon60.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <54321A2A-3F36-4416-B473-49AC11FF057F@gmail.com> <853bk5gwa8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <792D87C1-B9A9-495E-9335-7139845D1CB0@gmail.com> <85fyo4zvei.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87sls47lvd.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <85wthftsme.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17343.8588.975063.805988@mmyn404.iimas.unam.mx> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136596957 31350 80.91.229.2 (7 Jan 2006 01:22:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 01:22:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 07 02:22:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ev2mq-0001gY-8x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2006 02:22:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ev2lU-0005yw-NU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:21:04 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.cw.net!cw.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4RbVkMH5YFhb3JVYPI+qpxg6EmE= Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 07 Jan 2006 02:13:23 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c1c09384.newsread2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=1cIM9^`U9n?D9BSA]l:5@Ied^ngKa1_LiI6ENVam3>5MOK` List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32515 Archived-At: bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström) writes: > "Luis O. Silva" writes: > >> Free software is developing by itself or I might say it's undergoing >> evolution like a living creature. It's growing and getting >> better. This process will never stop[1] and is, in some sense, >> autonomous. In contrast, commodities are done to be sold. Here >> developers bow to the market. >> >> The conclusion about better development, then, can be easily be drawn. > > Not really. A lot of people get paid for developing free software. As > the demands for free software grows, the profitability of developing > will increase. Sure, and certainly free software does not develop by itself. And of course, user friendliness is an important goal, just not at the cost of freedom. Since it would be self-defeating in the long run, anyway. If your most important goal in life is to have lots of children, and you happen to be on board of the Titanic when the water gushes in, should you rather look for a spouse or a life vest? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum