[MUD-Dev] Criminalize Community Volunteers?

[David H. Loeser Jr]

Wil,
This wasn't my message...
It should actually be attributed to: "Brian 'Psychochild' Green"
<brian at psychochild.org>

Thanks,
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% David "Dak Lozar" Loeser
%% Sr. Systems Engineer
%%% Venusoft Inc.
%%%% http://www.venusoft.com http://www.greatshot.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: <Willowreed at aol.com>
To: <mud-dev at kanga.nu>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Criminalize Community Volunteers?


> In a message dated 9/7/2000 7:43:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> daklozar at home.com writes:
>
> > > Now for the real rant portion of this post.  I find it disgusting that
> >  > so many people seem willing to defend this practice by saying "The
money
> >  > isn't there" or that "Online RPGs just wouldn't be made" if companies
> >  > couldn't exploit free employees.  What kind of defense is that?
That's
> >  > like saying, "McDonalds can't stay in business if we have to pay our
> >  > employees actual wages.  Can we just give them a few burgers at the
end
> >  > of the shift?"  How far would that fly?  It's worse in our case,
because
> >  > commercial MUDs are primarily a service, not a product; and we have
come
> >  > to expect "volunteers" to help us provide that service.
> >  [snip]

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