Re: Learning C++

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tanix@mongo.net (tanix)

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:27:31 GMT

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In article <7r6oi8FmisU7@mid.individual.net>, Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> wrote:

tanix wrote:

In article <hikvv7$14rv$1@news.ett.com.ua>, "Balog Pal" <pasa@lib.hu> wrote:

"Andrew Poelstra" <apoelstra@localhost.localdomain>

Those acitions do not make it free. Unless it fell down from heaven in
the
first place.

Arguably, hard work and cows do indeed fall down from heaven, albeit
indirectly.

And that indirection brings in the cost too. Canceling 'free'.

Strange to see that narrowed down thinking in a programmer community,
thought global/system-wide observartion should be the norm :-/

Code, on the other hand, consists of _ideas_, and it is more than
valid to consider ideas to be free, especially if their originator
has made them open source.

Software may bne based on ideas, but creating it involves a big deal of hard

work. When we get to telephatic interfaces and the "software == idea", you
may call it free, not before that. (I meant to state the truth -- in
another sense you're free to claim whatever falseness or mince words for
misleading. )

We need to get used to idea that you have to PAY for something you get.

Most large opensource projects are developed by paid developers. A
third or more of my staff are working on opensource code. We use the
work of others and they benefit form ours.

Well, cool.
I am not your judge.
Your HEART is your judge.

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