tim wrote:

> Gosh we must be such nasty people. I'm amazed anyone has anything to do  
> with Squeak  under such awful circumstances. Clearly we must all give up  
> earning a living in order to satisfy this nice persons demands.
>
> It may have escaped the notice of some people out there that a  
> significant proportion of the major contributors to Squeak actually earn  
> their daily crust by working for the net benefit of the community. That  
> tends to mean that said people have precious little time left over to  
> work on giving away free stuff not related to their work. "Free  
> Software" does not mean "free to tell me what to do with my time".

This deserves to be re-quoted in full.

There's nothing you can't give away for free that won't turn some people  
into greedy whiners.

Fortunately, I think in most cases we get stone soup.