On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 13:46 -0400, Egor Sanin wrote:
> On 8/16/13, J. Liles <malnourite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As a though experiment: pretend you are a musician;There's a difference between art and tools released for the public.
> > if someone came to you asking you to rewrite your song to better suit their
> > listening needs, how would you respond?
Art, excepted of the crap on the radio, should not suit to anything.
A tool, even if it's for free as in beer, needs some quality. For
example, if I build a power supply for somebody for free, this person
can't expect that I fulfill all imaginable uses, e.g. for somebody who
needs it for a Tattoo machine, I won't provide balanced voltage, but it
could be used with the bikes battery and mains. What I fulfil is
security, if she/he should hang ab the tattoo machine on the bikes
handlebars no short will destroy anything, if the mains are used, nobody
getting tattooed will get an electric shock. If I build a power supply
just for my self, not for anybody else, I can ignore some security
things, because I know what I do with this power supply. I even could
use banana jacks instead of a Schuko jack to connect to the mains.
Why the double standards?
> If some brash and shallow peruser of linux expressed the same opinions
> as OP, I would likely also bash that person
Regards,
Ralf
Ralf, perhaps you've never read it, but you should. this is part of the GPL preamble:
/* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT */
/* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or */
/* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for */
/* more details.
/* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or */
/* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for */
/* more details.
It was not put there without reason.
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