On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:53:38PM +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
> 1. There are no vacuum cleaner hobbists, no pharmacutical startups, no
> companies that develop a custom in-house oven for baking the staff
> dinners, and no person ever manufactures a car "because I needed to go to
> the supermarket".
>> Software is different.
Software is different, but it doesn't have a divine right to be. Why
shouldn't democratic society decide that we can do without software
hobbyists in favour of greater employment (say) ? That's the argument
you have to explain.
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