From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-06-25T21:55:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] The Free Market

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:45:09PM +0900, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> Contrary to what proponents say even Open Source Software is not in
> accord with the goal of a free competition - many Open Source
> Software programmers make their life with something else than writing
> Open Source Software. This is Cross-financing.

If I choose to fly kites at the weekend, I cross-finance that activity from
my working week. Is that not in accord with the goal of free competition?

When lawyers do law work without charging they call it "pro-bono". It's a
way of contributing back to society. The point is that there is more to life
than a marketplace, even for lawyers.

Regards,

Brian.