Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 31, 2003 08:17 PM
"The current on-going recession was caused by the sudden collasp of what was a technology "bubble". Is this supposed to be news to anyone?!"
Somewhat true but there is a fundamental difference between the IT-industries problems and others problems. We have cemented into companies and peoples minds that there is no need for payment, you can get free labour.
"But, this isn't caused by OSS. "
It caused by open source and other factors, open source is not the biggest factor but it certainly is a factor.
"The only reason that government and businesses are turning to OSS solutions for their IT needs is because the cost of the investment in closed source solutions has been priced beyond it's ability to return value.”
That is not true, of cause there is a high value in software. But if someone offers to work for free they will take that instead.
"So, there's still good work to be done for those who wish to work, but the gravy train for those who profit from other people's work has been somewhat curtailed."
Are you joking? Huge profitable companies (non-IT) now get free labour from software engineers and others. Not cheap labour, free labour.
This is a typical example of big money-strong capitalists making profit from other people cheap labourb (free in this case).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 31, 2003 08:17 PMSomewhat true but there is a fundamental difference between the IT-industries problems and others problems. We have cemented into companies and peoples minds that there is no need for payment, you can get free labour.
"But, this isn't caused by OSS. "
It caused by open source and other factors, open source is not the biggest factor but it certainly is a factor.
"The only reason that government and businesses are turning to OSS solutions for their IT needs is because the cost of the investment in closed source solutions has been priced beyond it's ability to return value.”
That is not true, of cause there is a high value in software. But if someone offers to work for free they will take that instead.
"So, there's still good work to be done for those who wish to work, but the gravy train for those who profit from other people's work has been somewhat curtailed."
Are you joking? Huge profitable companies (non-IT) now get free labour from software engineers and others. Not cheap labour, free labour.
This is a typical example of big money-strong capitalists making profit from other people cheap labourb (free in this case).
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