On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:44:10AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://linuxrouter.org > > All of you reading slashdot knows this by now. > > Read Dave Cinege's rants, and you can see that > he's a pissed off guy... since 1997. Was on the > Debian Mailing list at that time, and he > proposed Bruce Perens to be ousted as the Debian > Project leader.
Read through the slashdot posts. The guy has issues, to say the least. > It failed, and after a few > months, Dave founded LRP. He tried making money > off LRP, but he failed too. I have little or no sympathy for someone who wants to make money by giving away software then complains when that brilliant plan fails. There are people who make money at it (MySQL as a good example), but they make money providing services and commercial licenses. LRP isn't the kind of thing that people will want a commercial license for, and I don't see a big market for services in that area. Regardless, he seemed to have a business model of "whine and wait for big checks to pour in". People who make money at open source don't expect large companies to write big checks. The whole idea of using open source is to save money. And please don't try to tell me that "Free doesn't necessarily mean free". I hear that all the time, and it makes me cringe. When all of your customers have the right to give away your product, your market is gone. I'm not speaking against open source or the GPL, I love them both, but I don't have any fantasies about getting rich off it, either. > Now LRP is dead. From /.: "Live by the GPL, die > by the GPL" > > Will this happen to other Open Source Projects > after a few years? The guy's a dork. If LRP is useful, and I see its usefulness lessening by the day, then someone else will pick it up and carry on. Remember that the NCSA httpd project was abandoned and left for dead at one point, and it's now the most used web server by nearly a 3:1 margin. People who think that open source projects die when their creator moves on have a fundamental misunderstanding of open source. This isn't proprietary software: we have the source and the ability to do whatever we want with it. Dave Cinege is irrelevant. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
