Re: bias...

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
[...]
> When Stallman still had to support himself, did he work for that kind of
> pay?  That would be $17.50/hour -- $35/hour by normal standards as a
> consulting fee vs. fulltime employment.  So, did he do custom work for
> $35/hour or less?  Not to my knowledge -- all reports I've heard estimate
> that he used to charge $200/hour or more (some estimates went as high as
> $300-350/hour), and this was back in the 80's, so inflation should be
> considered as well.  Stallman also demanded (of course) that the code he
> wrote for such consulting gigs be placed under the GPL.  No surprise there.

As you said the above seems very irrelevant to this discussion:
> In my mind, the ONLY issue here is "what is best for the Wine
> project?"

But I assume you were just digressing. Anmyway, your reasoning is
incomplete: you cannot conclude that Stallman made more than $35000/year
just because he asked $350/hour. You have to also show that he was
employed at that rate for a substantial percentage of that year.



[...]
> Seems like he's not practicing what he preaches, yet he remains
> completely unconcerned about the potential for the GPL to decimate the
> programming profession and turn is all into wage slaves.  Programmers
> might even be forced to search for jobs unrelated to computers, if
> there's not enough programming work available.

You may want to read the following:

http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/jobs.html


You seem to have researched Stallman's views and life quite a bit. I
just hope you are also researching Wine as thoroughly so that you can
soon emit informed opinions.

Here are a few starting points:
 * Gavriel State - TransGaming DirectX Release
   (You said you did not know which promise they made, now you know)
   http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2000/12/0358.html
 * Ove Kaaven - Re: CoGetClassObject
   (how the InstallShield stuff started)
   http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2001/08/0035.html
 * Me - Problem with InstallShield...
   (completes and puts the above two together)
   http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-license/2002/05/0056.html
 * Alexandre Julliard - Re: Problem with InstallShield
   http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2002/05/0232.html
 * Me - Re: Wine license change
   (trying to describe why I think the LGPL is good for Wine)
   http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2002/02/0289.html


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