Matt, et al, On 4/18/08, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For this reason, I'm tempted to opensource my stuff, but where would > > be my compensation? Do I really HAVE to sacrifice my pay check...?? > > Not at all. I released most of my data compression software under > GPL. If a > company wants to use it in a commercial product or wants something > customized, > they have to pay me. Meanwhile a lot of people have improved the software > for > free until it moved to the top of the rankings where it got the attention > of > companies that need data compression experts and pay well. This would > never > have happened if I had kept the code proprietary.
Translation: We all (me included) now accept as reasonable that in order to briefly earn a living wage, that we must develop radically new and useful technology and then just give it away. That you perceive a need to say this indicates that there must be a few poor souls out there (besides us) who just haven't woke up yet to this very sad current state of affairs. Steve Richfield ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
