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To: bacchus_ii who wrote (72229)	2/22/2002 2:39:21 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Gottfried, I've been a programmer all my working life, retired at 40 by sell my right on the last program I wrote, 18 years ago. I don't know what you have against me today but you are wrong all the way. So what changed your mind since the time of that transaction and today, since you are so dead set against anyone earning living and making profit from selling software? Joe

To: bacchus_ii who wrote (72229)	2/22/2002 7:09:36 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Gottfried Re: <retired at 40 by sell my right on the last program I wrote, 18 years ago.> Cool in the extreme! What kind of program was it? I think you sort of come at the LINUX effort from a different place than I do. While I'm not coding/testing/documenting for LINUX & never have, I can certainly see where the presence of an interesting problem is enough to attract effort. And I think the LINUX problem is sufficiently interesting. Re: Your later remarks on PK, all I can say there is it was a tragic story, but I admired the man tremendously at one time. He did a lot of things very right for a while. His model of software development was excellent! While he died of alcohol, he died a millionaire and made his mom and many others wealthy also, IIRC. Alcoholism and creativity don't necessarily go together, but they don't go apart either. tgptndr