[News] "Berniethlon" - The End | ANN.lu |
Posted on 01-Dec-2002 18:46 GMT by Gareth Knight (Edited on 2002-12-01 21:44:11 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 221 comments View flat View list |
"It saddens me greatly to announce that, effective today, any of my Amiga-related software development has been mothballed indefinitely. This means that, pending any unexpected developments, there won't be any "Amithlon v2" (aka "Berniethlon"), nor any further support or add ons for "Amithlon v1" by me."
Read more at the Amithlon site
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Posted by Steffen Haeuser on 02-Dec-2002 00:27 GMT | In reply to Comment 80 (Hammer): >A: To release a non-free program is always ethically tainted, but legally there
Why should releasing a non-free program be ETHICALLY TAINTED ? I was aware
of this paragraph and never could agree with it. We have some 30 (?) years of
software developement. Should everybody who ever wrote a program for money
be considered "morally wrong" or IMMORAL ? I can absolutely NOT agree with this attitude.
I think this line should be removed from the next version of the GPL FAQ. Actually I found this quite insulting when I read it the first time.
They don't even give reasons for this !!! WHY this should be "ethically tainted". They just keep like if everybody would understand easily that this
would be "ethically tainted".
And if this would be true, then maybe selling books for money is also
ethically tainted ? (What's so different in the intellectual IP of a book-author and a software-author ?) And selling cars for money is also ethically tainted ?
Maybe you are immoral if you don't give away everything for free ?
Writing programs for money is doing a normal JOB. There is nothing at all
bad in it. Unless maybe in Communism where making money is considered
bad in any case :)
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