On May 16, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Now, not only do I need to bust my ass to provide it to you for free, > but I also need to do other things for you to. I need to provide you > access to stuff and I need to track things in a different way and I need > to setup elaborate systems. AND, I need to tell you exactly how I build > it too. > > Can't you ungrateful bastards take the free software I make by following > the licensing requirements and be happy with that? ---- can't say that in all the years I've been using FOSS/Linux that I've ever seen the maintainers have such open disdain for their users. Clearly they have gotten a massive code base for free and though the cost of assembling it into a redistributable system is not inconsequential, it's clear that if this attitude was prevalent, we wouldn't have the massive code base available as it were. Craig