I personally agree with you both and don't see the conflict: goal for developers: have a great job, great life, great family, great friends, earn enough to accomplish this goal goal for FOSS developers: help create a better, free product, to share and contribute for the benefit of others (and ourselves)
Also not necessarily in conflict: goal for some developers and companies: sell product or support based on FOSS either by adding something like a backend service such as a server or data such as media, support, packaging such as a computer or satellite or tivo box Some FOSS costs little to zero up front cash, some costs money. But I would rather have the source out there to learn from, improve, debug if required (I'm thinking about my job here where I have had to fix a few bugs in code that had it been closed source I would have had to wait a long time to get my requests handled (or maybe even never). As for Google developers competing against others, if it is FOSS then you can turn that into collaboration much easier than with closed source. And who says that closed source companies don't have competition? Of course they do. There are tons of closed source applications and games out there for sale competing for customers some even from the companies that make the operating systems. I pay for plenty of closed applications, but I am much happier to pay for a FOSS one because I think it is better for everyone. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:09 AM, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Apr 15, 5:10 pm, KonstantinDK <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just wanted to remind you about the spirit of open source stuff: the >> main goal is not to make money, but to create a better, free product, >> to share and contribute for the benefit of others getting only >> satisfaction of your work. It's not about making money. > > Fairy tail hour. Let's pop to hood here for a minute. > Take Alfresco, Red Hat. These are companies with regular co. goals and > open source is mainly a marketing tool to get the system out and as a > marketing tool to differentiate against MS SharePoint and MS Windows. > IBM considers OS contributions to Eclipse as strategic investments. I > had a devel work for me a couple years back who had previously worked > on just that and trust me, she got very well compensated there. Every > summer, Google recognizes that funding makes the world of OS go around > by running the Summer of Code. > > A lot of good people get paid a lot working on OS projects, otherwise > there would be not much OSS worth mentioning. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
