Tony Arnold wrote: > Alan, > > alan c wrote: > >> a further thought - I have a deep and penetrating appreciation of open >> source software, but I sometimes reflect on the future of the software >> industry. I often get the impression that foss authors frequently have >> a programming day job, not always in foss areas. In the extreeme >> case, *all* foss, then what (wider) business model is going to provide >> foss authors with income - from any source (of income...)? I do not >> know, I really hope it will support a substantial foss sector. > > Are you confusing free as in beer with free as in freedom? FOSS does not > have to be free as in beer!
No I am not, for myself anyway. I purchased a retail box of suse 9.1 for example a while ago. And there is the oracle move against Red Hat, not to mention novell apparently going a step too far with its MS patents deal. (I am winding down my use of suse already). If you can see a clear business model that would provide say, a small software business, success, if it only used open source (say GPL) I would be interested to know the thoughts. -- alan cocks Linux registered user #360648 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
