Re: An interesting issue

de POKO 05/09/2006 09:14

In article <wradnfI93OuYEP3ZRVn-sQ@comcast.com>, noemail@noisp.com
says...
> > When they get up to Heaven's Gate they may be shocked to hear that the
> > supply of virgins has run out - never see the cartoons that caused so
> > much shit?
>
> Good one! Now that you mention it, I *haven't* yet seen those cartoons
> yet. I need to spend some time this morning searching for them on the
> Net because I forgot about them.
>
> > It's all fine and dandy that these fellers gave you a browser
> > and e-mail client, but calling them a charity is far fetched. I could
> > send away for documents to start up POKO's Church of Wayward Web
> > Designers, but that wouldn't make me a full-fledged priest - (snip)...
>
> The premise for your response is flawed. No one (including Mozilla) has
> ever said or implied that Mozilla was a charity organization. Mozilla
> gives away some of its products for free and made a profit somewhere
> else without asking for compensation for the gifts. Expressing thanks
> for free gifts is not implying nor inferring that the source was a
> charity.
>
> If I may ask: What exactly has Mozilla done to motivate this response?
> I mean, if they are stealing someone else's operating system while
> lobbying in Congress for tougher anti-piracy laws; or running
> competitors out of the commercial market by bundling competing software
> with their operating systems and signing exclusivity contracts with
> hardware retailers---or something along those lines---then you have a
> legitimate reason to blow the Caps-Lock text...
>
>
>

I didn't call it a charity, it was:
From: Mark Carter <me@privacy.net>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
Ouch. Remember, it's a charity, so there shouldn't really be a "return
on investment".
I'm not against them - I love folks that put out free software. But if I
receive 50 million from someone, I expect to have to pay a bit of tax on
it. Today's "creative accounting practices" piss me off. Big business
should be paying more taxes to take some of the pressure off us little
guys. The days of companys with a soul are long gone - Corporate America
only concerns itself with paying as little tax as they can without
having to go to jail and to hell with everyone else.
/rant,

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POKO