Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 25, 2003 06:54 AM
You don't understand how open source software development works. You don't go out, write a piece of open source software, put it on the web, and then wait for the money rolling in. Any idiot can see that that's not going to work in most cases.
Open source software is generally developed by people who have a need for a particular piece of software as part of their job. They then share that software with others who need the same kind of software in order to get feedback, contributions, and bug fixes.
Everybody who contributes to that software gets paid, often well, by their employer. They don't get paid to be software developers, they get paid to solve a particular problem. The fact that they develop software in order to solve the problem is an accident. It just happens to be cheaper to develop the software in-house than to buy something commercial.
And if you think that this drives independent software developers and software companies out of business, you are exactly right. Sorry, guys, but there are lots of professions that are obsolete, and independent software development is rapidly becoming one of them.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 25, 2003 06:54 AMOpen source software is generally developed by people who have a need for a particular piece of software as part of their job. They then share that software with others who need the same kind of software in order to get feedback, contributions, and bug fixes.
Everybody who contributes to that software gets paid, often well, by their employer. They don't get paid to be software developers, they get paid to solve a particular problem. The fact that they develop software in order to solve the problem is an accident. It just happens to be cheaper to develop the software in-house than to buy something commercial.
And if you think that this drives independent software developers and software companies out of business, you are exactly right. Sorry, guys, but there are lots of professions that are obsolete, and independent software development is rapidly becoming one of them.
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