Re: Free as in beer

On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 22:06, John Andersen wrote:
> On Friday 22 August 2003 12:40, Matthew King wrote:
> > Perhaps this is an indication that a vital geek <-> non-geek buffer is
> > missing from our dealings with computers, much as a lawyer is a buffer
> > between the courts and non-lawyers.
> 
> That's the most charitable description of a lawyer I've ever seen.

My bad. Change 'lawyer' with 'what a lawyer should be in theory' and it
all makes a lot more sense :-D

> The fact that you come close to suggesting lawyers between
> users and developers comes close to spelling the doom 

It does come close, doesn't it? It shouldn't though. Ideally the person
between would be some sort of geek. I like to think I can explain geek
stuff to users in a fashion they understand. There must be others like
me.

I, most definitely, am not a lawyer.

> os software development.  I couldn't think of a worse 
> sceanario!.

How about one where BSD was never forked away from Unix and Stallman and
Linus had never existed?

(No digs against Stallman, that's been done in *plenty* of other forums
:-)

Matthew

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