Fabian Guisset wrote:
>
> Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > You are, of course, referring to Ben Bucksch, the owner of Beonex, whose
> > business it is making improvements to Mozilla for money, and supporting
> > the resultant software.
> >
> >Gerv
> >
>
> Strange, that the word "money" rhymes with "Ben Bucksch" in Mozilla.
> When I read this post I directly thought of him too. I don't think
> anyone else does that. Not that it bothers me, but as Jason said, it
> "doesn't speak well for the Mozilla community at large, which surely is
> an open source community effort based on common feedback, agreement, and
> an idealistic conception of software development rather than individual,
> and capitalistic, "rogue" membership".
>
> Fabian.
Uh, where have you been. Open source software is making money for people
and companies. Look at Linux. That happens to be a good thing. A major
point when the Mozilla licenses were pounded out in some groups here
some three years ago was leaving room for making money.
If Ben makes a buck here and there on this and he follows the license
then more power to him. He's doing what was intended in the first place.
Open source is not anticapitalistic. It is antimonopolistic. It levels
the playing field and if you can find a good business model, you have
caught on to what it means.
Chuck
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That, when the brains were out,
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