Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 23, 2004 06:03 PM
Changes regarding jobs and source of revenue in the past has never meant that people are unpaid, just that the businesses change.
There really is nothing to compare with in this case, it's unique.
Open source means that the people making software is unpaid, not that they are paid in another way. For most software there exists no support or service businessmodel. Most open source authors work for free. It's the free labour itself that makes it free for the end user.
Sure, there are specialized service&support companies like IBM but they don't pay for the development anyway. It's a different line of business, it doesn't have anything to do with development.
It doesn't matter if you make proprietary or open source software: You are not going to be paid, in any way, no matter wich.
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Article completely misses the point.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 23, 2004 06:03 PMThere really is nothing to compare with in this case, it's unique.
Open source means that the people making software is unpaid, not that they are paid in another way. For most software there exists no support or service businessmodel. Most open source authors work for free. It's the free labour itself that makes it free for the end user.
Sure, there are specialized service&support companies like IBM but they don't pay for the development anyway. It's a different line of business, it doesn't have anything to do with development.
It doesn't matter if you make proprietary or open source software: You are not going to be paid, in any way, no matter wich.
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