You should read to whom and what I am replying to first: >Bits in a screen that someone just comfortably typed and then pressed a button to ship is not as valu

You should read to whom and what I am replying to first: >Bits in a screen that someone just comfortably typed and then pressed a button to ship is not as valuable. This is a guy who argues that programming is not valuable work compared to a cup of coffee, as justification for his refusal to pay for software. That, as far as I'm concerned, is a cheapskate and a pathetic one at that. Programming is valuable work and some programmers want to be compensated in coin for their work. Not all users will want to compensate in coin or even compensate at all. These are both fine. Devaluing the former to justify the latter is not fine, and is what I am attacking.