Re: Free software business models (was: Evolution copyright assignment: Storm in a teacup)

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

> Thus, the real statement in your message is what your values are.
> Developing non-free software doesn't bother your conscience now.  You
> can encourage someone to use a non-free program, as the KDE developers
> did in 1997, without a qualm.

I'd like to think of it (simplistically) as a bunch of bad kids in high 
school that you would like to change into good kids.  But see, if you're a 
dork you're not going to be able to change them to being a kid because
they tend to listen to people who are 'cool'.

So, you need to be a little cool in order to entreat them to be better kids
because when you're cool people dig you and you'll be able to sway these
kids into being better people.

Miguel is a dork who decided to be a little cool so that he can get bad
kids to become cool.  Sometimes, you have to be the devil a little bit;
speak their language, be the 'man' in order to get people to change
the world.  It's much harder to do it from a purist fashion.  Some
people just don't have the kind of patience, you have Richard. 

Don't judge Miguel because he decided to be cool.

sri