In a message dated: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:24:37 EDT
Jeffry Smith said:
>They do get paid for their work. Oh, you mean the ability to do
>something once and get huge wads of money forever because someone else
>is using the idea to solve THEIR problem? Well, I know Andrew
>Trigdell of SAMBA has set it up so you can e-mail pizzas to him (only
>buy from local, no matter transport yet, ;-(), there's nothing
>preventing you from sending money to any of these folks. Again, most
>of them do it because it scratches an itch they have, not with the
>goal of making gobs of money forever. I also notice that Linux, Alan
>Cox, Andrew Trigdell, Jeremy Allison, maddog, etc, are not exactly
>hurting in the money department.
Larry Wall is not doing too shabby either. He was offered pre-IPO stock in
Yahoo (I think) as a thank you for having written Perl.
Oh, just so you know, I do my part to financially support OpenSource software
by using my LinuxFund Credit Card :) 1% of all purchases goes towards free
software projects ! It's got a great picture of Tux on it too :)
--
Seeya,
Paul
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"I always explain our company via interpretive dance.
I meet lots of interesting people that way."
Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
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