Re: the free software paradigm


Ari Krupnik wrote:
Raffael Cavallaro
<raffaelcavallaro@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-mac.com> writes:

So long as programmers have to live inside
the money economy then their "de-monetized" work will continue to have
a negative impact on the availability of work for programmers and/or
programmer wages and salaries.

You could start a union to protect programmer wages. The union could
make trouble for anyone who used programs written by non-unionized
programmers. Many professions already have this sort of arrangement,
the lawyers, the doctors, the civil engineers, even actors.

Ari.

How could you make trouble to the user? Isn't that illegal? I
understand if you make trouble to the non-unionized programmer or
software company that donot join the union. But the user of the
product? Are you going to sue them? for what reason? for not using your
product?
Am I going to get sued if I watched the movie played by the actor not
in actor union? I don't think so.

And there is nothing software written by non-unionized programmer
cannot do. Some union works because it is based on the network effect
-- non-unionized doctor/lawyer won't have much connection. But in
software world you work over API, there is nothing preventing
non-unionized software to follow the same RFC standard.


I don't think having software written by the union work with unionized
software only is legal. You cannot make it a requirement that every
software written by the union must only run with another client
authenticated by the union (may be through public key authentication).
If it is legal, it would be easy for Microsoft to push Linux out of the
market simply by requiring that every software run/connect to Microsoft
related service be running on Microsoft platform. Surely most server
today are Linux/Unix but from the point of view of the hig level
manager, I think Windows will stay if choice has to be made.


And if you are going to make trouble for the non-unionized programmer
themselves. That means you are targetting at anyone who take salary at
lower than programmers' minimum wages. That means anyone writing free
software, for fun, for non-software-related field. How are you going to
make trouble to a college kid for writing applications?



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