Who exactly ISN'T crediting the authors or sharing any profits with them? General rabble right? If someone we know is doing this, I will be more than happy to bar them from the list and site. Are you trying to say that this has EVER happened on piclist.com or that I have done this? James Newton, PICList Admin #3 mailto:jamesnewton@piclist.com 1-619-652-0593 phone http://www.piclist.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Michaels To: Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 17:08 Subject: Re: [OT]: piclist.com BillW wrote: > Seems to me many pieces of code I see published in various venues > have a little piece of data attached - legalese to effect that > freedom is given for private use, but not "commercial" use. > >This can make sense for whole programs, but it's pretty meaningless for >code snippets or algorithm discussions, IMO. > of course. ================= > > Interesting philosophical question --> should I "give away" > work that I produce on "my own time" when I know other people > will turnaround and "sell it" for profit? > >Yes. The theory is that you get back more overall value than you >contribute. That's what makes it a forum. That's what "open source" is >all about. Shared pain is lessened, shared joy is increased, yadda, >yadda... There's an awful lot more to selling code for profit than just >writing it, stuff that programmers are likely to find unpleasant. > Sure, I'll buy this - but the shared pain would of course be lessened even more if the sellers would credit the authors fairly, and share the profits - don't you think? :). -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.