Re: my opengl progs - ZX & nonZX themed

Lemmiwinks, The Gerbil King <chrrris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:02:22 +0100, fuzzix <fuzzix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>...and FYI, I pay for my Free Software so I'd appreciate it if you laid
>>off the "pikey" ***.
>
> I don't think you've been reading what I've been writing, either that or
> you don't understand it (which would probably be as much my fault as it
> is yours). Who did you pay, and for what? And most importantly, do you
> think that paying for Free software is typical?

Until I got the job that involved it, and then broadband, it was for me.
I bought 3 full editions of SuSE over the years before I got access to the
disks to copy or download for myself.

Now? No, there's no need. The value added stuff in the box sets like support
and dead tree manuals don't hold any value to me anymore. I've probably done
more complicated support issues than the suse support covers anymore.

So, I will download it. If at some point I lose broadband, I'll buy it
again. Ahh, the freedom of choice.

>>Damn, I hate this vacuous, impulse-driven fucking
>>culture... If it doesn't have a monetary value it's worthless.
>
> I'm afraid that that is exactly how the planet you've been born on works

No it isn't.
It's how the WORST side of it works.
There's such a word as philanthropism, I suggest you look it up.

> - if it doesn't have a monetary value it's worthless. If you think, for
> a brief moment, about what money is and why we have it, you will see
> that.

Money is a device by which tokens can be exchanged for products and
services. Nothing in the definition of money says that ALL products and
services must be paid for however.
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