On 07/31/2014 04:54 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Derek Balling <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     I think we value community just fine. The problem is we (as an
>     organization) give away the community for free so *we* (the org)
>     have devalued the community. We've set its value at "zero".
> 
> 
> That is not clear to me... nor was it to Hippocrates (or whichever of
> his students penned the oath). There are other ways to set value, ways
> which perhaps *you* are devaluing.

I agree - open source software is given away freely but in many cases
has tremendous value. The trick is to find some way to get at that value
without charging for the product itself.

Skylar
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