On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote:
> That��s real noble of them, but lets face it, this is America, they
> are simply providing free work so somebody else can make money.
So what? If they don't care, why should you?
> What percentage of the $29 or whatever you pay for RedHat is sent to
> Andy? Do the people at Mandrake even invite him over for pizza?
Things like this do happen, and such companies often employ OSS
developers. For example, Alan Cox works for RedHat. Ted T'so (author of
the ext2 file system et. al.) works for VA Linux. These guys are getting
paid to write OSS.
> When RedHat, which is public, and has fiduciary obligation to it��s
> shareholders, hopefully starts making lots of money, will they share
> the wealth with all these fine people or will they just start being
> known as R$?
They already did. Partly by doing the above, and partly by offering IPO
shares to people working on OSS projects.
> I hate being such a cynic but I remember a lot of this same talk in
> 1967 about free stuff and they all grew up and bought BMW��s.
So what you're really saying is you're bitter and jealous. I can't help
you there.
>
> 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.
>
> Right, so at what point do we start hating them for it?
We don't.
> There is this pervasive thread here, indicated by the M$ thing that it
> is wrong to make as much money as you can from something.
No that's just wrong. We hate Microsoft because they write bad software,
which we can't fix, and through unethical and illegal business practices
have forced all of us to live with it. It has nothing to do with money.
Let me emphasize this, because this is the point that you completely fail
to get:
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MONEY. MONEY DOES NOT ENTER INTO THE PICTURE.
THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN MONEY. THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN MONEY. THERE
IS MORE TO LIFE THAN MONEY.
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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