Comments on: How Geeks Give Back http://www.geekpreneur.com/how-geeks-give-back the inteserection of geek and money Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: SL http://www.geekpreneur.com/how-geeks-give-back/comment-page-1#comment-1026 SL Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:28:58 +0000 http://www.geekpreneur.com/?p=784#comment-1026 Of course, most of the real geeks work in their spare time for free, on Free Software, which is guaranteed to always be available to help the poorest in society, even in Africa. Go there, and you can find copies of Microsoft software that cost a month's wages. Or, you can find Free Software, available at no cost, because geeks with bigger hearts than Bill's decided to work for free, rather than to take money, stomp on others' rights, and then give some of it back as a "good will" gesture. There's nothing good about having lots of money to spend. Not taking more money than you need to live, relative to the global poverty line, and working for the benefit of all anyway... that's good. Of course, most of the real geeks work in their spare time for free, on Free Software, which is guaranteed to always be available to help the poorest in society, even in Africa. Go there, and you can find copies of Microsoft software that cost a month's wages. Or, you can find Free Software, available at no cost, because geeks with bigger hearts than Bill's decided to work for free, rather than to take money, stomp on others' rights, and then give some of it back as a "good will" gesture.

There's nothing good about having lots of money to spend. Not taking more money than you need to live, relative to the global poverty line, and working for the benefit of all anyway... that's good.

]]> By: Lee http://www.geekpreneur.com/how-geeks-give-back/comment-page-1#comment-958 Lee Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:10:42 +0000 http://www.geekpreneur.com/?p=784#comment-958 Of course, most of the real geeks work in their spare time for free, on Free Software, which is guaranteed to always be available to help the poorest in society, even in Africa. Go there, and you can find copies of Microsoft software that cost a month's wages. Or, you can find Free Software, available at no cost, because geeks with bigger hearts than Bill's decided to work for free, rather than to take money, stomp on others' rights, and then give some of it back as a "good will" gesture. There's nothing good about having lots of money to spend. Not taking more money than you need to live, relative to the global poverty line, and working for the benefit of all anyway... that's good. Of course, most of the real geeks work in their spare time for free, on Free Software, which is guaranteed to always be available to help the poorest in society, even in Africa. Go there, and you can find copies of Microsoft software that cost a month's wages. Or, you can find Free Software, available at no cost, because geeks with bigger hearts than Bill's decided to work for free, rather than to take money, stomp on others' rights, and then give some of it back as a "good will" gesture.

There's nothing good about having lots of money to spend. Not taking more money than you need to live, relative to the global poverty line, and working for the benefit of all anyway... that's good.

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