Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 10, 2002 01:40 AM
I'm not the poster you reply to, but anyway...
Just forget about anything involving working for free while charging for something else. It's a huge loss no matter how you look at it. No person or company can in the long run sustain a business where a substantial part of the work time is done for free, it's amazing that there are still people beleiving that. Haven't you guys noticed the huge losses these companies are doing?
Selling support for free software may work in some rare cases but in that case, make sure you don't write any free software, _only_ support it.
To take an example. CVS is one of the most popular version control software out there. However, the total sum of income for everyone doing support for it cannot pay the salary for one whole single person (!!!). For most software there is no service or support market for it's authors or the company who made it.
Doing products for free, thats dot-bomb era bullshit.
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Re:Shame it works for Largo's sysadmins.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 10, 2002 01:40 AMJust forget about anything involving working for free while charging for something else. It's a huge loss no matter how you look at it. No person or company can in the long run sustain a business where a substantial part of the work time is done for free, it's amazing that there are still people beleiving that. Haven't you guys noticed the huge losses these companies are doing?
Selling support for free software may work in some rare cases but in that case, make sure you don't write any free software, _only_ support it.
To take an example. CVS is one of the most popular version control software out there. However, the total sum of income for everyone doing support for it cannot pay the salary for one whole single person (!!!). For most software there is no service or support market for it's authors or the company who made it.
Doing products for free, thats dot-bomb era bullshit.
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