Chip Hart;148162 Wrote: > Mark Norton wrote: > > Open Source/GPL may be a good idea, but not when some people > profiteer > > on the back of other people's efforts. > > > > That's the way it is, isn't it? > > I dunno, because the various game engines (quake, doom, et al) > have made some original developers very rich, secondary > developers mildly rich, and 1000s of others not-rich-at-all and > that business seems to thrive on the model you describe. > > Correct me if I've misunderstood your point. > -- > Chip Hart - Pediatric Solutions * Physician's Computer Company > chip @ pcc.com * 1 Main St. #7, Winooski, VT 05404 > 800-722-7708 * http://www.pcc.com/~chip > f.802-846-8178 * Pediatric Software Just Got > Smarter. > Your Practice Just Got Healthier.
No Chip, you haven't but in the case of SS, those "not rich at all" folks are getting precisely nothing as I understand it. That's one distribution which is heavily skewed. It will be interesting to see if Logitech can actually cope with the informal structure and slightly anarchic environment of Open Source/GPL. -- Mark Norton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Norton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4722 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28873 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
