On Jan 7, 2008, at 6:31 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Richard, should we expect a contribution to the project for the

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> time

>     that you and your minions have taken from all of us?

>

> I have no minions,

Yes, this was gratuitous and irrelevant to my point, so I apologize.
> and I cannot take time from you.  However, if you

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> adopt the policy that you won't reply to my messages unless I pay you

> to, you will be within your rights.

And this misses my point entirely. I'm not asking you to pay me, and

you're under no obligation to pay anybody. However, in the  quote of

yours that I presented in my previous post  you made a point of how

valuable your time was and how it was not for others to dispose of,

thus justifying your request for contributions to your cause in return.
Perhaps my time is worthless to you. Perhaps my time isn't of much

value to the project either. However, there are a lot of people who

read this list, and over the past few weeks a large amount of our

time has been taken up by this little train wreck of yours. A good

number of the people whose time you've taken (and you have, despite

your claim to the contrary) are important to this project, and that

would seem to indicate that this time has been taken from the project

itself.
So, regardless of how you feel about my time, if you value the

project as you've stated, it seems to me that it is not unreasonable

to expect that a contribution is in order. You can of course do as

you wish. You are certainly _free_ to not contribute or contribute as

you see fit, but please keep in mind that our time is not yours to

dispose of either.
-Jonathan