Re: WAY OT: Warez - A Rebuttal

["Gregor Zavcer" <gregor.zavcer@kiss.uni-lj.si>]

>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