>>My view is we should be paid for our labor. We should not be paid beyond that. When someone pays us for service, they are again paying us for our labor.
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>I still find this a flawed approach. Why not sell your software a bunch of times, then use the proceeds to fund other bible-thumping projects of some sort if that's what you want to do instead of selling yourself short like that? Sell it a bunch of times create large business employee a bunch of people. If you can help more people by doing it this way then perhaps it's the best way to go about it. Example - Bill Gates - who's made billions re-selling same software over and over, has given more money to charity than any other human in history, and his foundation has..for the most part, completely eradicated a disease (they will completely soon) and if I'm not mistaken that's the 2nd time in history that's ever been pulled off. Sure makes a lot more sense than if he would of handed out windows OS source code for free then sat back and did nothing else but feel good about himself thinking he'd done some wonderful thing.


God wove the Earth together, and all the people in it.
Our goals are to help each other prosper, to grow others,
to let the special talents God gave individuals bloom and
do their part in the grand mix, which automatically means
growing ourselves up as well. This cannot be done with
artificially closed doors and barriers, but only through
openness and transparency, each of us helping others,
with God at the center, helping us all.

Men choose to shut others out unnecessarily and bring
condemnation upon themselves. They are empire building
rather than people / community building.

How many software developers did God create to augment
Windows who were shut out by closed policies? How many
users today would like to buy ARM based devices and dual-
boot Windows and Linux? Microsoft tried to kill that
ability.

We'll never know what was possible because closed,
proprietary models and mindsets kept people out.

Hoarding is quite simply evil.
It's personal empire building when we are part of a
community.

Each man will choose for himself. And each man alone
will answer for himself. And each man knows what side
he's on when he is being true to his inmost voice, that
call of God continually guiding us all.