Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 24, 2004 02:27 AM
About a month ago I have written about this topic. There are different kinds of software developers.
Some are in-company developers, some are developing custom made software for particular customer, and some are developing software that is sold in the stores.
Only the last cathegory could be harmed by Open Source or Free Software. But they are trying to convince the rest of us that we are on he same ship, which is not true. If their ship sinks, the rest of us will keep on sailing.
Since I develop custom made software, I coludn't care less for the future of software industry, since they are my competition, in the same way as clothes industry is competition to a taylor shop.
As far as I am concerned, to hell with software industry, sooner they go down, the better.
Custom software developers can benefit a lot from Open Source and Free Software, since there are "building bricks" that can be used. The same thing goes for in-company development.
Neither, custom made software developers, nor in-company developers don't have to publish their work to public ftp server or something, if they don't want to. They do not have to be afraid that their customers are going to publish their source code, since they would make available to their competition something they payed for.
However it is good idea to publish some general and common parts to the comunity, so that those parts could be improved and refined, without the effort from original developers side, and then used in future projects.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 24, 2004 02:27 AMSome are in-company developers, some are developing custom made software for particular customer, and some are developing software that is sold in the stores.
Only the last cathegory could be harmed by Open Source or Free Software. But they are trying to convince the rest of us that we are on he same ship, which is not true. If their ship sinks, the rest of us will keep on sailing.
Since I develop custom made software, I coludn't care less for the future of software industry, since they are my competition, in the same way as clothes industry is competition to a taylor shop.
As far as I am concerned, to hell with software industry, sooner they go down, the better.
Custom software developers can benefit a lot from Open Source and Free Software, since there are "building bricks" that can be used. The same thing goes for in-company development.
Neither, custom made software developers, nor in-company developers don't have to publish their work to public ftp server or something, if they don't want to. They do not have to be afraid that their customers are going to publish their source code, since they would make available to their competition something they payed for.
However it is good idea to publish some general and common parts to the comunity, so that those parts could be improved and refined, without the effort from original developers side, and then used in future projects.
DG
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