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If you read this, please don't buy gedit there I wonder how the author of the article makes a living? It seems quite spiteful to try and undermine a fellow dev

by gaius 9y ago

If you read this, please don't buy gedit there I wonder how the author of the article makes a living? It seems quite spiteful to try and undermine a fellow developer like that. Isn't anyone who works on GNOME working for Red Hat, without getting paid? They were a for-profit company last time I checked...

parazitik 9y ago
It seems quite spiteful to try and make money off someone else's work.
- aoeusnth1 9y ago
  Literally everything we do as developers is multiplicative and derived off someone's work. Let me guess - you probably make money based off Linus Torvald's work? So what if someone does the labor of porting up-to-date gedit to OS X and wants to get paid for it? If it was that easy to keep it up to date, the free one would be up to date too.
  - y4mi 9y ago
    while i absolutely agree on your general premises, i also think that they should've specified that on the product page. its absolutely fine to take money to properly maintain and port a software for money. it does feel kind of scummy though if they're portraying themselves as if they're actually the sole developer of said software. and that is the vibe i got from skimming their product page.
    - sametmax 9y ago
      Do you specify the huge amount of free software you use for every stuff you do ? The licence allows it so it's ok.
baybal2 9y ago
> Isn't anyone who works on GNOME working for Red Hat, without getting paid? They were a for-profit company last time I checked... It used to be just at around one quarter during 2.6-2.10 days, then it jumped to above 90% when they scared off the prevalent majority of developer community during TOPAZ (3.0) train wreck. What was the name of guy who was running around with "GNOME UX" thing? Anybody remembers?
- RaleyField 9y ago
  Do you have a source for that 90% and how they got scared?

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If you read this, please don't buy gedit there I wonder how the author of the article makes a living? It seems quite spiteful to try and undermine a fellow dev

by gaius 9y ago

parazitik 9y ago
It seems quite spiteful to try and make money off someone else's work.
- aoeusnth1 9y ago
  Literally everything we do as developers is multiplicative and derived off someone's work. Let me guess - you probably make money based off Linus Torvald's work? So what if someone does the labor of porting up-to-date gedit to OS X and wants to get paid for it? If it was that easy to keep it up to date, the free one would be up to date too.
  - y4mi 9y ago
    while i absolutely agree on your general premises, i also think that they should've specified that on the product page. its absolutely fine to take money to properly maintain and port a software for money. it does feel kind of scummy though if they're portraying themselves as if they're actually the sole developer of said software. and that is the vibe i got from skimming their product page.
    - sametmax 9y ago
      Do you specify the huge amount of free software you use for every stuff you do ? The licence allows it so it's ok.
baybal2 9y ago
> Isn't anyone who works on GNOME working for Red Hat, without getting paid? They were a for-profit company last time I checked... It used to be just at around one quarter during 2.6-2.10 days, then it jumped to above 90% when they scared off the prevalent majority of developer community during TOPAZ (3.0) train wreck. What was the name of guy who was running around with "GNOME UX" thing? Anybody remembers?
- RaleyField 9y ago
  Do you have a source for that 90% and how they got scared?