Monday, October 13, 2003

For what it's worth

I really despise the open source movement for promoting the idea that intellectual property should be given away freely.

If you want source code and you're not bright enough to write it yourself at least have the decency to acknowledge the skills of the person who is clever enough by paying them a fair price.

The trouble with the bazar is that it's full of struggling merchants trying to scrape a modest living and customers who are happy to take free samples and never actually buy the goods. Eventually the merchants will all go out of business.

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