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It's an entitlement because developing something like this requires an absurd amount of time and money. Why should they work for free. Do you work for free?
by watty 13y ago
It's an entitlement because developing something like this requires an absurd amount of time and money. Why should they work for free. Do you work for free? Would you consider your boss entitled if he expected you to work for free?
What's my view of OSS? I'm thankful for it. Yes, it's free work - they're working (although doing it for pleasure) and giving it away as a gift. I guess that's the difference, I view it as a gift, others seem to think it's immoral to work for pay.
Edit: Please enlighten me, what exactly is immoral about charging for software that takes thousands of man hours to create?
- rodgerd 13y agoDid they have to build git? Did they pay for it? What about ruby? No? Rails?
- watty 13y agoI don't get what point you're trying to make. Is it wrong to sell software that has some piece of open source in it? It's not like they cobbled a bunch of open source projects and placed a license check on it. Do you realize that virtually every application uses some open source library?
- rimantas 13y agoFunny, Rails was born as side product of closed source software.
- ekianjo 13y agoSo what's your view on Open Source/FOSS projects where people contribute and write code and share it for free without asking for retribution ? Do you consider that "free" work ? Don't you benefit from that anyway ?
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- rpdillon 13y agoOpen source isn't about working for free. It's about pooling resources in the community to provide a baseline from which competition can begin. Open source improves the efficiency of the overall system, allowing innovators to focus on innovation, not basic functionality (like operating systems, text editors, web servers, web frameworks, programming languages, virtual machines, etc.) Google sells advertisements, so they make a free browser that makes the web fast and secure. They improve search to make the web more useful for everyone. They help get third-world countries online. Why? Because when the internet grows, Google grows. They're not working on search "for free". GitHub might have taken a similar view with Atom: by creating a freely-available, polished, advanced, and easy-to-use programming environment, they might help foster the growth of a whole new generation of hackers that would use GitHub to easily store and share their code, right there, baked into the editor. Universities might pick it up, and it might be featured in coding academy curricula. Student projects might involve writing plugins for it, extending it, and making it their own: often the first task of an artisan is to make and customize his or her tools of the trade. And GitHub would be there, at the center of it all. Rather that some advanced hacker tool shrouded in mystery, GitHub would be built-in to every new coder's first experiences with programming: an iconic brand synonymous with that eye-opening rush of seeing your code work for the first time. That doesn't appear to be their plan, though.