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> I obviously can't afford to give my work away for free Why is that obvious?

by zoidb 14y ago

acchow 14y ago
He seems to be confused seeing as he also built it with FOSS like bootstrap and GWT.
- piqufoh 14y ago
  Obviously those tools aren't given away for free! oh.
- fudged71 14y ago
  The Bootstrap framework can't be used for commercial purposes?
  - acchow 14y ago
    "I have chosen to charge a nominal price for this" is different from "I obviously can't afford to give my work away for free."
- fxtentacle 14y ago
  The main difference here is that the people who wrote Bootstrap and GWT were employees and they were PAID to work on those open source projects. I'm not employed for working on OS software. I did less contract work (and thus now have less money) so that i could spend my time on preparing a solution which works well for me. However, if i need to spend more time to make it work well for other people, that would be a stupid decision for me if it means that i lose more money. But if you look above, i'm not set in stone about the OS / not-OS debate. I'm just wondering if people would be willing pay me for polishing it if the source is already available. If not, this could very quickly turn into one of those highly ambitious, yet dead, open source projects as soon as i'm forced to work on other projects.
  - niggler 14y ago
    Bootstrap was done on off-hours (even though they were employed with twitter, if you read their history it was done outside of work and there was zero compensation)
- arrrg 14y ago
  I don’t quite understand your entitlement. The usual case is that people have to be paid for their work. If that’s sometimes not the case then that’s a bonus, not something you can expect and be angry if it doesn’t happen. You don’t want to pay for it? Fine, that’s great. You are free not to. It’s also not appealing for me personally. But complaining about someone wanting money for work? Sorry, that’s wretched.
fxtentacle 14y ago
OK those words were badly chosen. I'm a freelancer and as such i don't have an employer paying me to contribute to open source projects. This means that i need money to be able to afford to spend more time on this project.

> I obviously can't afford to give my work away for free Why is that obvious?

by zoidb 14y ago

> I obviously can't afford to give my work away for free Why is that obvious?

acchow 14y ago

He seems to be confused seeing as he also built it with FOSS like bootstrap and GWT.

piqufoh 14y ago
Obviously those tools aren't given away for free! oh.
fudged71 14y ago
The Bootstrap framework can't be used for commercial purposes?
- acchow 14y ago
  "I have chosen to charge a nominal price for this" is different from "I obviously can't afford to give my work away for free."
fxtentacle 14y ago
The main difference here is that the people who wrote Bootstrap and GWT were employees and they were PAID to work on those open source projects. I'm not employed for working on OS software. I did less contract work (and thus now have less money) so that i could spend my time on preparing a solution which works well for me. However, if i need to spend more time to make it work well for other people, that would be a stupid decision for me if it means that i lose more money. But if you look above, i'm not set in stone about the OS / not-OS debate. I'm just wondering if people would be willing pay me for polishing it if the source is already available. If not, this could very quickly turn into one of those highly ambitious, yet dead, open source projects as soon as i'm forced to work on other projects.
- niggler 14y ago
  Bootstrap was done on off-hours (even though they were employed with twitter, if you read their history it was done outside of work and there was zero compensation)
arrrg 14y ago
I don’t quite understand your entitlement. The usual case is that people have to be paid for their work. If that’s sometimes not the case then that’s a bonus, not something you can expect and be angry if it doesn’t happen. You don’t want to pay for it? Fine, that’s great. You are free not to. It’s also not appealing for me personally. But complaining about someone wanting money for work? Sorry, that’s wretched.

fxtentacle 14y ago

OK those words were badly chosen. I'm a freelancer and as such i don't have an employer paying me to contribute to open source projects. This means that i need money to be able to afford to spend more time on this project.