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Originally Posted by bchliu View Post
Very true.. but something even truer is the self satisfaction and inner rewards does not feed you (and the family) nor does it pay the constant bills.

This becomes an ethical debate of money. As much as most of the advocates in this forum is use to the idea of free Linux and ideals of Freeware/GPL, it really does not work in the real world of commercialism (which funnily enough, is what our society is based upon). In fact, what did we use to buy our N900's in the first place? or the constant phone bills that is associate with it?
I don't remember anybody talking about how commercial soft- or hardware were a bad thing. Juise- was just replying to the non-sense capitalism fanboy statement that nobody in their right mind would ever do anything good for free.

No, the warm, fuzzy feeling when you know that something you did helped other people does not feed me (working for a company does). But the insolent assumption that what I write in my spare time just has to be crap, because if it was any good I wouldn't give it away for free, makes me want to throw up.

I haven't spend THAT much time so far coding for this community, but there are others out there who spent dozens of hours to develop highly useful (and by now pretty much bug-free) applications because of prestige, the fun that comes with creating something useful and/or *gasp* simply out of generosity. Calling them idiots for doing something that "does not feed them" and belittling their work as half-finished, low-quality junk is more than just a slap into their faces.

By the way... we're still waiting for those ominous two applications that he's missing. Unless he comes out with what he's looking for, I call that an empty claim.

Last edited by Nathraiben; 2010-07-01 at 15:05. Reason: Typing while angry further decreases my poor English... ;)
 

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