On 12/17/2016 08:29 PM, Charles Cossé wrote:
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
If you own an apartment in a building with elevators, you have to pay
service charges to the company that maintains it.
With all due respect, where's the motivation for the poor bugger who
writes the free software? I believe that there is still something
missing from this equation.
The software developer would normally be paid by the hour to produce
free software for industrial use.
That's what my company does, anyway, even if we don't make software for
elevators or embedded systems in general.
So it's okay to pay the company to maintain the elevator but not the
software developer? Where's the motivation for the software developer?
... to maintain the elevator, and as part of that, the software. The
developer's motivation would be the paycheck. Payment by invoiceable
hours is a standard business model for free software developers. Support
contracts are too.
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