Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 07, 2004 07:02 AM
If I am working for closed source company or a open source company I get payed the same as a programmer.
The open source company is paying me to develop a app to save them money internal operations(there kick back is that it is cheeper to run there own program than use microsoft or some other closed source).
The closed source company are paying me to develop a app to make money selling to other companys.
Open souce company give out the source code to save on bug fixing.
Closed source holds on to the source code so they can sell updates
Basicly there are two different ways both work but the big point forgoten some where everyone is getting kick backs. Opensource programmers are able to use the open source programs on there resumes to get them into Closed source development and hired Open Source Development Groups(redhat mandrake OSS....). So there is always a kick back in some form but when a programmer is getting payed it is the same for the programmer.
Note showing me the source code and not letting me work on it is just closed source because it is closed to me doing something to it.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 07, 2004 07:02 AMThe open source company is paying me to develop a app to save them money internal operations(there kick back is that it is cheeper to run there own program than use microsoft or some other closed source).
The closed source company are paying me to develop a app to make money selling to other companys.
Open souce company give out the source code to save on bug fixing.
Closed source holds on to the source code so they can sell updates
Basicly there are two different ways both work but the big point forgoten some where everyone is getting kick backs. Opensource programmers are able to use the open source programs on there resumes to get them into Closed source development and hired Open Source Development Groups(redhat mandrake OSS....). So there is always a kick back in some form but when a programmer is getting payed it is the same for the programmer.
Note showing me the source code and not letting me work on it is just closed source because it is closed to me doing something to it.
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