OS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Call me clueless but surely it is all this talk of 'free software' and 'you may
> sell it but you must release the source code' that is putting many companies
> off Linux !!!
This is not putting many company off linux.
It make no *real* difference in selling a software with or wo source code,
except competitive issue.
> Take dear old Corel. It's nearly bankrupt, so what does the Linux community
> ask it to do. Complete the job by giving it's products away for free !!!
I don't care of non free software on linux :
there will always be an open source competitor.
I care about non open source driver which is a real issue with linux.
> M$ must
> be laughing all the way to the bank !
> If they can't beat Linux, they'll just
> wait until all Linux app. companies are bust, and all Linux developers too poor
> to eat !
What do you think i'm paid for ?
I'm paid for develloping free sofware...
> In an ideal world maybe everything would be free, so the companies
> would not have to pay their employees.
you're joking right ?
> Until then it is surely a bit unfair for
> the Linux community to say 'Stuff how long you've been battling to build up
> your company, we want to make you bankrupt by making you give all your
> software, which cost millions to produce in developer wages alone, away for
> free' !
Read above, i don't care about pure software (and they can be sold with source code ).
I care about driver.
> I don't mind paying for software, never have. (It would be nice to to
> live in a world where I could get my money back if it's crap however !)
I don't mind paying for software, but all software that i need is availlable
for free.
> I work
> for a software company, and I would be really pissed off if one day they came
> along and said 'you're fired, we can't afford to pay you any more 'cos we're
> giving all our software away for free now'.
That's not what i'm talking about... at all.
> I don't want to stack tins down at
> the local super market and write software in the couple of hours free time I
> would get ! While I can get paid for software development I'd much rather do it
> all day !! And much as I would like to spend all day writing Linux stuff
> / tinkering with my Linux box I don't relish the thought of living on social
> security !
I think there is a really little number of people in this community relying on this,
people do what they have to do at job time, and the other stuff at free time, which,
unfortunnelly lead to not much free time when you're using this one for free software
development :)
> I realise that the majority of Linux development is done as an 'in
> free time' exercise, but I presume that the developers may be doing something
> they like to do from '9 'till 5'. I bet a lot of them work in software !!
>
> Please tell me I'm wrong and I've got it all upside down.
Many software company are paying their developer for developing free and
open source software. They make money ont the support / marketing operations /
selling the software to company which need support.
--
-- Yoann http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~yoann/
It is well known that M$ product don't make a free() after a malloc(),
the unix community wish them good luck for their future developement.
