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I'm not sure you and I share the same reality. 90% of everything is crap that includes open source. People do get paid for open source software. If you have a
by biohacker42 18y ago
I'm not sure you and I share the same reality.
90% of everything is crap that includes open source.
People do get paid for open source software. If you have a known OS project on your resume you will get better economic opportunities.
If woods was as cheap easy to copy and share as software, carpenters would be building giant Trojan horses in their spare time, to show of their skills and simply for the fun of it.
OS software does not devalue quality software.
If software is important to you, as in bottom line important, then you are not just happy to pay for it.
If the software that works for you happens to be free you STILL look to pay someone to make sure it keeps working.
OS kills no-quality software.
- mccutchen 18y ago> If woods was as cheap easy to copy and share as software, carpenters would be building giant Trojan horses in their spare time, to show of their skills and simply for the fun of it. I really like this analogy. Or whatever it is.
- pj 18y agoAnd if a business sold that trojan horse and gave nothing to the builder, what then?
- biohacker42 18y agoThe builder can immediately go into business selling and/or supporting giant wooden horses. As one of the builders he'd have a HUGE leg up on the competition. Or perhaps the builder knew that was going to happen and doesn't care. Or only cares that his reputation as a great builder is spread. If some commercial horse building operation is put out of business by this, I'm surprised they were ever able to stay in business even without the free competition. Perhaps 100% of their market was pimply teenagers who only used wooden horses as toys.