On 05/25/2011 11:09 AM, km wrote: > Yes I agree. The software is free but I think, services should be paid.
There are many people around the world who dedicate their efforts ( and in many cases, a large portion of their lives ) towards doing open source work, and do so in a contributory manner with no interest or drive to gain financially from that. Its these people who are, to a very large part, responsible for the open source efforts at large ( not linux centric per se ). The idea of the $DayJob and $RealLife sort of stems from this concept. Might be a bit strange to get ones head around, but if you consider it - its not that strange at all. The person you are is based quite a lot on what you do, how you do it, where you have been and the people you have interacted with. None of these things have a bearing on money or financial gain as the primary motive ( but, we all need to eat and live in a house too ). It depends on finding a balance on where you want one set of things to stop and the other side to start. In many cases its possible to bridge the two sides or even straddle them at the same time. Sometimes its harder. And in yet other situations the DayJob and PassionJob are very very different. eg. A good friend of mine, excellent programmer and fantastic tutor actually has a $DayJob playing in a band. just my 2bits - KB _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
