If you were to think of making money writing free software apps then would you be able to earn? Ok, lets assume I sell a copy to you and you pay me. I assume or at least hope that someone else will buy a copy from me in the future. But "you" can distribute the copy to others free of charge! My business wud fail! Because people are not buying it from me anymore.
Take a look at RedHat, or G10code as counter examples of why the above is not true. There are many other such examples as well. This post is not about proprietary software; it is about "earning money". Of course there are other ways of earning money if you are serious about thinking 'free software'. For e.g. you could go around fixing or supporting free software apps for other people - adding more features or removing them; you could do this service for a decent wage. That is how the software business works, it is very seldom that you end up writting something new, you maintain and support things as most of the work that you do. Not even the big propietery companies survive on just charhing for copies. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
