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> there are no economics to writing Firefox extensions. The same could be said of most free software. But see [1]. > Out of curiosity, if there was a Firefox
by Mindless2112 11y ago
> there are no economics to writing Firefox extensions.
The same could be said of most free software. But see [1].
> Out of curiosity, if there was a Firefox App Store, how much would you pay for Tree Style Tabs?
I don't know. I keep dozens of tabs of reference materials open at work, which becomes unmanageable without it. I'd either pay for it, find a new way to work, or build my own.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html
- javajosh 11y agoApropos of nothing it occurs to me that one way to make it lucrative to build totally open and freely distributed software is to invent a caustic software environment. E.g. keep changing the hardware and software dependencies so that anything you did build and give away has to be built again. And again and again. That's one way to make a living from software in the long term, but it sure does seem wasteful. And if the technology truly hits an asymptote, then it's not clear what will drive the decay apart from programmer self-interest.