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Old 01-01-2008, 03:19 PM   #245
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
It is relevent in the sense that if Lauzon is proposing that payment to authors should be "voluntary", then he is being hypocritical if he is not also willing to accept voluntary donations for his own work. Or is he suggesting that it's fine not to pay authors, but HE still expects to get paid for HIS work?
Maybe he would be more willing to use a different payment model (not necessarily the "voluntary" model, if he was going to get smaller payments, but get them for the rest of his life (and his children, and his grandchildren....)

I'm being a little facetions there, but the fact is that working as an author already has a completely different model than being a software engineer.
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