yep i totally agree, this is the classical capitalist against socialism
debate, but i dont think this is the point here. I do some opensource
stuff and like to bring my tallents and stuff to the community.
Ok, here is an example: i am actually paid to develop product that will be
opensource. What will happen, if i work properly and manage to make a
clean very usable, perfect, blablabla stuff , becoming an industry
standard for that area (ala apache, bind, etc..), what will happens to company selling
and
producing the same type of product ? ...
I rekon that the future will have to go trough customer orriented service
instead of big cash software selling companies which does exist at the
moment...
JeF
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Terry Collins wrote:
> Jean-Francois Dive wrote:
>
> ...snip....
>
> > The idea is that developping free sofware leads the author to it's own
> > professional death:
>
> ...snip.....
>
> This is just the normal capitalist crap argument that your sole worth is
> how much income you generate.
>
> The fact is that a lot of a healthy society runs on the voluntary and
> mutual co-operation. Hence Slug, free WWW pages and other stuff.
>
>
>
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