"dpb" wrote in message ...
On 4/25/2011 5:16 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
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So who else shall we subsidize with general tax money? If you read, I
write.
You can subsidize me, if you're in that mode of thinking.

???

If we're going to subsidize electricians by making complete files or
printouts of the code -- an essential tool of their work -- free, and if we
justify that by saying that everyone benefits, then when I write a tutorial
on wringing gage blocks or grinding high-speed steel, why shouldn't someone
pay for my dictionaries and stylebooks?

In other words, I don't necessarily object to the idea, it's just that I
don't think much of the selective nature of the subsidies. d8-)

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Ed Huntress