kama wrote:
Sooner or later a free AC will either die or they try to go commersial. Its how programmers works. They want to get payed for the time they spend programming. This is also the reason OpenSource projects are doomed. I believe the OpenSource era is soon dead. Some larger projects will survive, but those are not made in a real non-profit way. These will be
Not everyone is motivated by greed. Believe it or not, some people enjoy writing and maintaining software for free. I am one of those people. Open source has been around for a long time, and is unlikely to "die" any time soon. On a more important note, just because a project is open source, it does not necessarily mean it has to be free. X-Chat (the open source IRC program) is open source. If you download the precompiled windows version, the author wishes the user to pay a registration fee else the program can only be used for X ammount of days. On the other hand, you can download the source code yourself, compile it, and not have to pay any registration fee at all. Matt. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
