[Chicago] Altruism vs needing to live

[Randy Baxley]

Carl and Bob, btw Bob, 11 days until SSA has to start paying me.  I have
often wondered about a S.C.O.R.E. type hacking crew.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Randy Baxley <randy7771026 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This sort of an answer for Douglas.  Carl and Doug are of course correct.
> Open Source has always floated around and it continues to become a more
> organized and powerful way of doing things.  There will always be seepage
> to the proprietary side.  In a perfect model Carl, Sheila, three Brians,
> two Adams, you and I would never have to worry that any of our needs would
> be met.  There has been shareware, freeware and such.  There is code that
> needs writing even when there is not money to pay us either because others
> will not see the need for it until the code is handed to them or because
> the lazy *** paid to write such things are *** or because there is code
> that is like medicine.  No one needs it but everyone wants it.  If folks
> here felt they had to be paid for everything they do you would have gotten
> no answers to your question without first submitting a payment method.
>
> Minutes 35 through 38 of this are very interesting as is minute 43.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMJil4Hzjjs#t=2077
>
>
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