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Re:Why do programmers write apps and then make them free by seabee on Sunday February 06, 2011 @07:19AM (#2185481)
The amount of entitlement some people feel from the authors of free software is quite surprising.

It's twice as bad when those people are pirates. Honestly, I don't have a big problem with people pirating our software, especially when they probably can't afford it (young teens etc.) but they certainly don't deserve to get our time and support for free as well.

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Re:Why do programmers write apps and then make them free by derleth on Sunday February 06, 2011 @04:47PM (#2186539)
The amount of entitlement some people feel

Stop right there. As a practical matter, you're misinterpreting comments. As a philosophical matter, there's no way you can know what others feel. This whole train of thought is ensuring that people misunderstand you and, worse, take you for the worst kind of sniveling martyr.

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