On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, James Turner wrote:
>But... that doesn't change that I've used freely distributed code. In
>my mind, it becomes a question of ethics. Is it fair to the Circle
>community to take but not give back?
Is it fair? No, but I'd say most people don't give back. I am happy to say
that people haven't been badgering me to finish any project though. It's
counterproductive because then you make the person not want to finish it.
>Not really, but there are a lot of ways to give back. One is here;
>posting and helping people does enrich the community. Another is through
>giving out code. Yet another would be providing web space containing
>useful information for others in the community. (Hmmm George has done all
>of this, I guess he's the mayor of our community, or maybe vice-mayor with
>Jeremy being mayor...).
I avoid making comparisons in rank. People can (and will) will believe
what they want to, but I still consider Jeremy more important/final say.
He took out my '(eek!)' from the bpl13 version string for instance. :)
There are still things (like autoconf) that he can do that I can't.
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