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Ironically enough, IIRC PG was one of pioneers of spam filtering.

And Peter Detkin coined the term patent troll and now runs a company that's one of the worlds biggest patent trolls.

Irony? Or just people being willing to do anything for money. There are worse motivations.

There emphatically is not a worse motivation that being willing to do anything for money. Do something to ensure there is a little less tragedy in the commons. Please.

Sorry, this is off-topic but surely hatred is much worse a motivation than anything.

Honestly, I'm not advocating money as a good motivator. I go to work and I buy things and I'm happy with capitalism but really, I just spent the last few months working on something I like with absolutely no money in it (and it's GPLed). Money is just there so I can get by and enjoy the really fun things. Just realised how much of a hippy I must sound, but it's true.

If you are motivated by hate and have money, you can pay people who are motivated by money to do your hating for you.

Money in itself is a fairly neutral motivation. You can perhaps justify doing something immoral for money if you plan to use that money for purposes that are more moral.

I don't think getting rich counts.

Yes he wrote the algorithm used in Spambayes.

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