Re: WAY OT: Warez - A Rebuttal

[Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@Adobe.COM>]

At 7:18 PM -0700 9/14/00, Gregor Zavcer wrote:
>And yes, something with a financial goal in mind isn't art. somebody who's
>primary goal is to earn money with his "art" isn't an artist nor is his 
>work
>art. It's not wrong if a piece of art gets well paid. The force behind the
>creation counts, IMO. so, computer hackers and freeware coders are 
>artists.
>also those who first got the idea and then started with "marketing".

But Michaelangelo, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Shakespeare were not
artists. Or so your statement indicates.

Mark