Re: WAY OT: Warez - A Rebuttal

["Kevin Thomas" <drfuzz@austin.rr.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregor Zavcer" <gregor.zavcer@kiss.uni-lj.si>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: WAY OT: Warez - A Rebuttal


>
> >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
> >
>
>
> When you got ordered to do something, then it's not art, it's craft.
>
> gregor
>
Hogwash...... I suppose the Mona Lisa and all the other great portraits
painted on commision are "craft"??  As well as the Sistine Chapel?? Etc....

drfuzz