[Bf-funboard] Add Mesh - Continued...

[Campbell Barton]

Michael Crawford wrote:
> 
> On Apr 5, 2007, at 2:53 AM, Campbell Barton wrote:
> 
>>> If a person works alone, one must be a programmer to have the same 
>>> degree of potential (and this is debatable...  artists are creative 
>>> and fool a lot of people with "tricks", but there is a limit to 
>>> that.  That's all i'm saying)
>>
>> why do you think we have a community of programmers who work for free??
>> - To support artists so they dont have to develop their own tool all 
>> the time.
> 
> Which is partially why I haven't bothered to touch the blender source 
> :P  I didn't want to say that so blatantly but since you brought it up.. :D
> 
> Eh.  don't worry.  i'll give back at some point, when i'm done with art 
> school, take care of an advocacy issue that's important to me, and have 
> more free time to develop.  Blender ain't going anywhere.  That's 
> another nice thing about open source.

This is off topic but I dont believe users of free software are under 
any moral obligation to contribute back to the software in any way.