John Nall wrote:

> Olin Lathrop wrote:
>
>> >And how are people supposed to support themselves while they create 
>> these
>> free tools for you?  So software engineers are supposed to give away 
>> their
>> labor for free, but others who produce food, build houses, make cars, 
>> refine
>> gasoline, and even manufacture PICs are allowed to charge what they 
>> can get?
>>
> Yeah, it's a fair question, I certainly have to admit that.  I need to 
> visit the Free Software site and see what they have to say about it.  
> :-)  Seriously, I think I can defend my postion, but need to give some 
> thought to it.  It seems like kind of a difficult issue.  My gut 
> feeling is that I have the right view, but you raise good issues that 
> need to be thought about for more than just a brief time..
>
> John

So many things on the internet are free, or almost so, that people have 
the strange notion
that firmware is somehow  "free".

Even the PICLIST is actually NOT free, James pays for it out of his own 
pocket, or people
donate some money here and there.

--Bob

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