[DUG] Open source licences

[David Brennan]

I think the point was that no one will bother taking a dollar to the police
because in all seriousness no one will ever come forward to claim it - I
mean if you drop a dollar then do you go the police station to ask if anyone
has handed it in? You may not even notice it has disappeared.

Whereas if someone finds a hundred dollars then I would say a reasonable
number (possibly no longer a majority but that's a different debate) of New
Zealanders would make some effort to find its owners (assuming it seemed at
all feasible).

David. 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Kyley Harris
Sent: Wednesday, 7 December 2005 10:19 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Open source licences

.... ahhh semantics....

<g> so its ok to steal a million off bill gates because he has 30+ billion,
because that dollar has the same value to a person on the dole as a  
hundred does
to a well paid software developer. </g>

seriously though, this could have best been started off-topic.

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:34:50 +1300, <peter at webcentre.co.nz> wrote:

>> And a state of mind. I dont care what anyone says. Anyone of us who  
>> finds
>> a dollar on the side of the road is not making a pit stop to deliver it.
>
> Now you're talking "a dollar", and I absolutely agree with you. But
> you started with $100, and I don't agree with the implication you
> made there.
>
> So I'd just call your "I bet you don't [take it to the police]..."
> and pocket the proceeds of that. <g>
>
> cheers,
> peter
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