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

[Michael Crawford]

On Apr 5, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Campbell Barton wrote:

> 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.

Changed send address to just you and me.

No you are probably right... but I want to contribute.  Suggesting  
features / debating / writing down improvements, bug reports etc...  
is something i can do in my spare time with no obligations imposed by  
myself (ie.. if I say "i'll code x feature, and i end up not having  
time, i feel horrible about it").  Overactive conscience?  Maybe.   
But i've always been a long-haired hippie open source type, and i'm  
all about karma.  See.  With open source, helping yourself is helping  
others.  What goes around very directly comes around.  I would argue  
such a system could be applied to a larger system (such as government  
or even corporation) but that's a topic that's waaay off topic.

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