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I earn my living by programming so I must be paid for my work. I work for a
company(not related to games) so my work if their property, that is as far from
Open Source as can be. that not necesarilly means I don't  love programming. In
fact I want to change my life to game programming.

Basically all work that have some creative stuff on it can be considered a type
of art, that involves a great number of aspects including teaching and so
basically the same rules applied. If anyone consider that u shoudn't get paid
for it, or give all the work knowhow free, then a lot of things will not work.
Why?

a)Basically because if u work more, u deserve more, and that is IMHO a natural
human law, and a lot of people will not want their hundred of ours work to be
used by leeches, where for me leeches are people that use your work and -never-
gives(not even think of doing it ever) something back to the autor of the work
and/or use your work to steal market from u. So some people may decide to not do
the job in first place if those are the rules.

b) Lots of develoments(probable most) are maid by companies hiring people, the
company exists because it will make money, if not, the company wouldn't exist
and the development either.

That by no means mean u must be greedy or will not cooperate with others.
Cooperation and colaboration(including ideas, Code, etc) not necesarily means u
need to be open source on all u do, or at the time u do it.


So I like when the companies gives away old engines, that's enough to let
-anyone- to learn from it.  If u want the last tech, then work for it as
everybody else, if not, then anyone could arrive mostly at the same time that
the one that did the real work with a product far less expensive than he can, so
he will be ruined economically, and people need money to live.

I like Open Source. I like Colaboration too. But by no means I think is nor
desirable neither possible for all the work be open source from the start. After
the work is well paid from its revenues, then u can let it be open source.

And if u think that u will not do it for the money, then what u do for living?,
a non creative work? Personally I dislike them a lot. Almost any creative work
has the same rules aplied concerning what we are talking about here.


Fernando Salas

PD: Sorry about the bad english


Jonathan Smith wrote:

> Hi, this is, of course, my final reply to this subject. Sorry to everyone
> who felt offended by the messages or if you felt me being rude in any way.
> I'm also sorry I wasted you all's time as well as mine. Maybe if we were
> making headway on this subject it would have been of some use, but
> unfortunately, we haven't. The bottom line is that the ability to sell a
> product is fine, as long as it is done at its best. Many may not feel this
> is correct and that's alright. I hope from here out we can work together and
> help each other. I know I might be thought of as a greedy, self-righteous
> person, and that there is no way that I could ever be a Christian. That's
> alright. May God bless all. Thanks.
>
>                                       Peace and God bless
>                                          Jonathan Smith
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