Re: my opengl progs - ZX & nonZX themed

Sinclair PC200 512k (V1.5) on 27 July 2005
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: I think you'll find you paid for the distribution of the software, not
: for the software itself - pretty sure that's how it works. You're not
: paying the creators of the software for the software, you are paying the
: distributors for distributing it. You are not paying people like, for
: example, John Elliot for whatever contributions he's made.

In practice this happens all the time, open source or no. A company buys a
licence for a library or a component (such as the Stingray Objectionable
Grid or the Visual BASIC runtime). They write the cost down over however
many months, and after that people who buy the software are paying those who
distribute the component, not those who wrote it.

: "He doesn't want to be paid!" I can imagine you screaming at your
: monitor.

You'd be wrong. Of course I would be delighted to be paid for the programs
I write in my spare time, or even better, for sitting around all day doing
nothing. I also want a palace. I also want Visual Studio .NET not to corrupt
my code, not to fall over constantly with memory leaks, and to be able to
step my code if I put a breakpoint in it. I also want Visual Studio 6 not to
crash on termination if I run it as another user. I want my kernel not to
panic if I plug in a pen drive while no-one is logged in. I want there to be
something like ZXCF that plugs into an 8-bit ISA bus so I can boot my old
XTs from Compact Flash instead of dodgy hard drives. <Londo_Mollari>Does zat
answer your qvestion?</Londo_Mollari>

However, since I believe that most if not all of these events have a low
probability, it doesn't do to predicate my behaviour on their happening.

--
JE
LONDO: "... I want us to be what we used to be. I want ... I want it all back,
the way that it was. Does that answer your question ?"
MORDEN: Yes. Yes, it does. -- Babylon 5
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