On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Ralf Meyer wrote:
> One fact is hacking is not at all necessary if one can
> get his hand on the source. Have you ever found a Linux
> warez site?
alt.binaries.warez.linux
It exists. There are quite a few apps for Linux that are not open source
or free.
> Another fact is that programmers spend time, money,
> resources in creating software. And even programmers
> need food, a bed, a place to live.
CD's, cable, take-out, etc... :)
> I don't see a way how making money and creating
> opensource software can sit in the same boat.
Everyone always answers this as "give them the product, sell them
support". I don't really buy that, unless you are going for the
non-techie market - ie. small business who wants some computer services.
I see OpenSource a bit different. I do not view it as having the "freely
redistributable" requirement. To me that is Free software. One
application I manage that we pay an heavenly amount for ($xxx,xxx) - not
at all free, we got the whole source code to it. Of course we can't pass
it back out, much like if we had just got the binaries, but we can look at
the code and find what is causing bugs and fix them before waiting on the
vendor.
This is the way OpenSource should be.
Just my opinion...getting off topic with regards to Palm though.
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