James, I think what you cite below was a "philosophical" discussion, not pointing blame. OTOH, did you get a reading back from the moderator vis-a-vis my question from yesterday? - dan ================= At 10:58 AM 6/23/01 -0700, you wrote: >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. > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.