[Hamara-devel] bradley Khurn - Do you like what I do for a living ?

[shirish]

Hi all,

See https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/26/like-what-I-do/

I especially liked this part -

Since I read it in 1991, I have never forgotten RMS' point in the GNU 
Manifesto: " Most of us cannot manage to get any money for standing on 
the street and making faces. But we are not, as a result, condemned to 
spend our lives standing on the street making faces, and starving. We do 
something else.", a point he continues in his regular speeches, by 
adding: "I [could] just … give up those principles and start … writing 
proprietary software. I looked for another alternative, and there was an 
obvious one. I could leave the software field and do something else. Now 
I had no other special noteworthy skills, but I'm sure I could have 
become a waiter. Not at a fancy restaurant; they wouldn’t hire me; but I 
could be a waiter somewhere. And many programmers, they say to me, “the 
people who hire programmers demand [that I write proprietary software] 
and if I don’t do [it], I’ll starve”. It’s literally the word they use. 
Well, as a waiter, you’re not going to starve." - RMS (or Richard M. 
Stallman's words and Bradley Khurn thoughts.)

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Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org