From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Wed Dec 22 1999 - 09:47:35 MST
>> 1) I can go work as a contract programmer for some XYZ company
>> programming whatever they would like to have programmed.
>> 2) I can *invent* things that may contribute to the productivity
>> of society, patent those inventions and have companies & organizations
>> coming to me to license those inventions.
So Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Larry Wall, Eric Raymond (who's
now worth about $30M BTW) and all the other successful software
entrepreneurs who got that way by giving away their inventions don't
really exist? Today, these folks may be the exception rather than
the rule. But wouldn't a world where they were the rule be better?
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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