Re: Learning C++
In article <4b4e4979$0$20191$a729d347@news.telepac.pt>, Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> wrote:
Balog Pal 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'.
It appears you don't know the meaning of the word "free".
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.
....which by no means implies that the author is somehow forced to demand any
compensation, specially monetary compensation, from those who access his work.
Well, not exactly he can DEMAND ANYTHING.
But it is something like of mother and child relationship.
Can CHILD "demand" ANYTHING fromt the mother?
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. )
You got to be joking.
Rui Maciel
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