RE: Current mailbombing is instigated by FSF

"Dave Nelson" <d.b.nelson@comcast.net> Sun, 01 March 2009 13:27 UTC

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Subject: RE: Current mailbombing is instigated by FSF
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:17:22 -0500
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Alessandro Vesely writes...

> Using the Internet is not mandatory: it's free.

Well, that's just plain silly.  Does your ISP not charge for access?  Mine,
Comcast, charges me over $50 US per month.  The Internet should be available
to all, but it cannot be truly free, as the fabric of the Internet cost real
money.

I think that free software is a wonderful thing.  I also think that if *all*
software were free, then only hobbyists would be writing software and we
wouldn't have so much high quality free software available.  In order to
keep the software craft going, some of us have to be able to make a living
plying that craft.