[email protected] wrote: >>> So I have to develop software for free >> >> No you don't. If you choose to then all the better, and kudos to you >> for making the world better! But you don't have to. > > Who is going to pay me beyond the first person?
Just get paid once. And again, if you create amazing value then you should get paid an amazing amount. > I also don't like developing free software because people have the > temerity to demand, not ask politely but demand, new features their > way for free. Yeah, I know that. I don't think one should listen to all the demands made by people on the internet however. Somebody is wrong on the intenet quite a lot. >> And you certainly don't have to provide any support. That is really >> explicit in the license. > > If I give away the software how do I eat if I don't do for pay support? You provide no support at all (like the license says) and earn money developing something else. > Think it through. Yeah, I have. >> Of course people want you to work for free and do their job so that >> they can feed their own faces without having to make an effort. .. >> People really need to learn to deal with that aspect of open source. > > I could deal with it I'm not saying you should deal with it, I'm saying the people who demand things for free should deal with the fact that there is explicitly in capital letters no warranty with the cowboy software they might build their entire business on. > Nobody yet has told me how to make a living developing free software > as a private individual. GPL effectively precludes that. A small business can not compete with a much larger one doing the same things. The small business has to do its own thing. GPL or no GPL. I know several small businesses which make a living developing GPL software. I think part of the problem may be a confusion between software development as a service and software development creating a product. Pure software products generally aren't worth very much today, but that doesn't mean that it is impossible to create amazing value just with software. //Peter
