From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>,
       Robert White <rwhite@casabyte.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM]
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:20:23 +0200
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On Thursday 26 June 2003 02:27, David Lang wrote:
> Then Larry asks the question 'what will we do if we kill off the companies
> that are paying people to do this innovation and there isn't any more
> software to copy'

It's a stupid question, since:

  - We won't kill off all those companies, just the lame ducks among them
  - Said lame ducks spend more money on managers than software developers
    anyway
  - Mostly they are just copying (or outright plagiarizing) not innovating
  - There will still be plenty of software when the lame ducks are gone
  - We don't "copy" software, we "derive new software from existing works".

A better question to ask would be: could we possibly fit more logical 
fallacies into a single sentence?

Regards,

Daniel

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