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I don't feel charging money for services or software is in any way immoral. But all other things being equal, I would rather work on a free, open source project
by reedlaw 14y ago
I don't feel charging money for services or software is in any way immoral. But all other things being equal, I would rather work on a free, open source project than proprietary software. It just feels better to provide something useful to a wider audience at no cost than to produce something for a single client or a selective group of paying customers.
- dinkumthinkum 14y agoWell, maybe you say you don't think it is immoral but it does have some sort of bad connotation with it for you, perhaps quite a strong one? It's a strange thing, right. Without money most software wouldn't exist or have much of a reason to exist. But what I was getting at is in our world, the world of programmers, there is so much self-loathing about making money off of one's labor that doesn't exist in the vast majority of professions. Unless the whole world goes the way of Gene Rodenberry, how would these web apps be hosted and how would people have the actual hardware to run applications? I don't see anything wrong with one that 1) programs and 2) does not take a vow of poverty. Just my thoughts. :)