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Elsewhere in this thread you asserted that "there's a price", and you don't particularly care about cost. Very well: Hire engineers and pay them a market rate
by brennen 10y ago
Elsewhere in this thread you asserted that "there's a price", and you don't particularly care about cost. Very well: Hire engineers and pay them a market rate.
- vinceguidry 10y agoCheaper to just buy commercial software.
- taco_emoji 10y agoExcept then what if you need THAT software updated?
- vinceguidry 10y agoYou contact the vendor, which is a capitalistic enterprise and so will generally entertain your needs and either provide you with the support you need, at a price, or point you towards authorized alternative service providers. I'm aware that this paradigm couldn't possibly work with the OSS production model, but there's no reason the community couldn't band together and come up with something better than "hire an engineer or go fuck yourself." With a little bit of creative vision, I think the FOSS world could make a ton of money. But good luck herding those cats.
- nercht12 10y ago>> With a little bit of creative vision, I think the FOSS world could make a ton of money. Notably, I have considered this, and as I was reading this thread, I was reminded of the BitCoin effort[1] by OpenWhisper Systems that appeared on HN not too long ago. The thing is, it's hard to get money-making models to work for "free (libre) software" in an era of increasing entitlement. That said, if there were another such system like that of the BitCoin one (but not using BitCoin or Paypal like everyone seems to resort to), I'd definitely be interested. [1] https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/ https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/