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On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 10:37 +0200, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> Someone sets up a firm that provides a free service:

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> they enhance your life by removing things from your

> home and disposing of them.

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> One day I return home and find some things have been

> removed.

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> I go the manager of the free service and tell him:

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> - Listen, I don't want you to enter my home and=20

>   remove things uninvited.

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> - But then I can't do my job !

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> - So you are thieves ?

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> - No, no, no, we just provide a free service

>   that enhances your life.

I have to say, I think this is really out of line, Fons.  Implying free

software developers are theives because they've changed something and

you don't like it is quite extraordinary.
I think a better analogy would be like so:
Someone sets up a firm that provides and maintains free furniture,

appliances, plumbing and electricity for anybody's home.
One day, you come home and find half of your radiators don't work

because someone has started upgrading the plumbing and hasn't finished

yet.
You go to the manager of the free service and tell him:
- Listen, I don't want you to stop the radiators in my house from

  working.
- That's fine, you're entirely free to install your own plumbing, or fix

  the plumbing we've installed for you.
- I don't want to, you should do it for me and do it right dammit!
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