<p>Legal issues will pop up in everything. If we stop doing what we do for fear of legal action then nothing will get better.</p>
<p>On Nov 6, 2011 7:37 PM, "Edmund Edgar" <<a href="mailto:lists@edochan.com">lists@edochan.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 7 November 2011 04:18, Ric Moore <<a href="mailto:wayward4now@gmail.com">wayward4now@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I love that, you want some kind soul to code something for free so that you<br>
> can then charge others? <swoons at the logic> Ric<br>
<br>
Actually I'm _offering_ to code something for free (DTL/NSL<br>
integration with BitCoin or some other distributed currency system<br>
that someone might suggest) so that other people can charge each<br>
other. I'm then hoping that someone else would do the same to make the<br>
viewer work better with what I'd code, although I'm hoping it would be<br>
useful even if they didn't.<br>
<br>
I suppose there's an irony in there somewhere, but this is very common<br>
in free software. There's loads of free software designed to help<br>
people charge each other: OS Commerce, Ubercart for Drupal,<br>
BitCoin/Ubercart integration, BitCoin itself, the original DTL money<br>
server, Fumi Iseki's version of the original DTL money server, not to<br>
mention the whole free software stack that supports most of the<br>
world's e-commerce systems. The alternative would be that free<br>
software would have to give up and throw in the towel to proprietary<br>
systems for anything to do with commerce - which is also what we'd do<br>
if we followed your suggestion on the other thread and stayed clear of<br>
the whole area for fear of unspecified legal threats.<br>
<br>
PS. Your "Gift Exchange" is money.<br>
<br>
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