Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 10, 2002 05:35 AM
"Isn't that more important than seeing some souless moneygrubbing corporation profiting..."
See, here's the thing you seem to have missed. Most of the closed software is made not by corporations, but by small independent companies. Almost no free software is made by corporations. It is instead made by groups of people that make no money, or minimal money, ie not enough to live on, by supporting the products. Hey, great for you that you can have money to upgrade your computer. Damn shame that the guys writing the open software that you use don't get to eat except by writing closed software.
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Way to miss the point!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 10, 2002 05:35 AMSee, here's the thing you seem to have missed. Most of the closed software is made not by corporations, but by small independent companies. Almost no free software is made by corporations. It is instead made by groups of people that make no money, or minimal money, ie not enough to live on, by supporting the products. Hey, great for you that you can have money to upgrade your computer. Damn shame that the guys writing the open software that you use don't get to eat except by writing closed software.
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