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Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA

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On 4/25/2017 12:32 AM, Cecil Bayona wrote:
> On 4/24/2017 11:12 PM, hughaguilar96@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Monday, April 24, 2017 at 6:12:02 PM UTC-7, foxaudio...@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>> We need open source cars, tractors and well... everything now.
>>
>> I consider open-source software to be a disturbing development ---
>> this is basically Marxism --- do we really want computer programming
>> to be a service industry in which programmers charge for their time
>> but they do not own the fruits of their labor?
>>
>
> Nobody forces anyone to do anything, Open Software can be nice but there
> is always room for Commercial software.
>
> How many years did it take Windows to have a nice looking interface? Zip
> right off the bat it was fine, How many years did it take Linux to have
> a nice looking interface, many years and many of the Open software still
> looks like a cartoon, why? The geeks that make that stuff rather work
> from the command line so the interface is not a priority, commercial
> software on the other hand has to appeal to the customer or it doesn't
> sell, if it doesn't sell then they can't afford that BMW. Greed is a
> great motivator to make things better.
>
> My uncle had a large farm in Cuba, him and two partners bought large
> pieces of land, and combines to harvest the crops, they were doing well,
> buying more land, and growing a ton of food. Along came communism, his
> land was no longer his, but it belonged to the State, they took his
> combines to be shared with other farmers, they didn't take care of them
> after all they didn't have to make sacrifices to acquire them and were
> wrecked in not time, the result was no food production. And idiots here
> want Socialism and Communism they have no clue about what happens when
> Socialist and Communist take over.

Yes, idiots lacking greed is our biggest problem.  We need more greed!

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Rick C

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Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 18:12 -0700
  Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 19:08 -0700
    Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-24 21:22 -0500
      Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 21:06 -0700
        Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 22:00 -0700
      Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 01:48 -0400
  Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 21:12 -0700
    Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA foxaudioresearch@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 21:24 -0700
      Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-24 21:27 -0700
      Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-24 23:35 -0500
    Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-24 23:32 -0500
      Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 01:54 -0400
        Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> - 2017-04-25 01:10 -0500
          Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 12:20 -0400
      Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 02:12 -0700
      Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA lehs <skydda.barnen@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 04:51 -0700
      Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-26 03:42 -0500
  Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-04-25 07:39 +0000
    Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 12:33 -0400
      Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-04-26 14:57 +0000
        Re: Software Could Re-define Ownership in the USA rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 12:22 -0400

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