Re: [LI] Re: DVD-ROM on Linux?

[Manoj Victor Mathew <mvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 07:17:54PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 08:02:56AM +0518, Manoj Victor Mathew wrote:
> 
> > You take away my TV and I will be left with none. But you copy all my
> > programs, I still have a copy. Please feel free to copy all my program
> > ;-)
> 
> Some things take a lot of work to produce and very little time and
> cost to copy. Who is going to compensate for the time and skill 
> needed to produce those things ?
> 

Everyone else in the community. Also your project is developed by you
alone. Many in the community help. Even if you yourself did the entire
coding yourself, you borrow ideas from others. If it is entirely your
own idea, still you gain when others develop upon your work.


> > PS. Arun, would you like to have my personal .muttrc? It's free, free in
> > the sense of freedom. I prefer to distribute my .muttrc for Rs 1000/-,
> > but as a special offer, I can give it to you for Rs 0!!
> 
> Your .muttrc doesn't have a market. If it did and if people were 
> willing to pay Rs 1000/- for it, by giving it to me for free, you
> would have donated me Rs 1000/- and I would have probably sold it
> to someone else for Rs 1000/- and bought some nice shoes. 
> 

I still have the Rs 1000/- with me. Also I am always free to sell your
.pinerc for Rs 1000/- . Thus I too can buy nice shoes.

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Cochin, India.