Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 29, 2006 04:19 PM
I think, many open source developers making mistake about how money works.
They don't just pour out of kindness. You make it so, they pay you.
It's like, "we're doing this for free, we're good, so come on, pay us, we're poor, please now, you want better stuff right?"
Partly right, but then again, we're living in the world where business isn't that easy. If you need money, you make business. Imo, OpenBSD has enough product and number of people and maybe publication to get some decent business going than beg for money out of free license that they chose to use.
It is up to them to keep themselves in financial trouble or get some business up instead. You cannot live in a dream land where you can only do what you want to do...(in this case, program coding I guess) you need to make life, to make life, get money, to get money, you got to do that yourself. Of course, if some kind people's donation make your life, then that's happy.
FOSS guys aren't anything special, releasing stuff free doesn't suddenly make you a buddah. So... think again about getting money. If you hire some publicity and contracting guys instead of making it hackathon and such, maybe you can run a OpenBSD sell business that gets you enough money for hackathon and such, but I have no idea.
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Re:OpenSSH Funding, etc
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 29, 2006 04:19 PMThey don't just pour out of kindness. You make it so, they pay you.
It's like, "we're doing this for free, we're good, so come on, pay us, we're poor, please now, you want better stuff right?"
Partly right, but then again, we're living in the world where business isn't that easy. If you need money, you make business. Imo, OpenBSD has enough product and number of people and maybe publication to get some decent business going than beg for money out of free license that they chose to use.
It is up to them to keep themselves in financial trouble or get some business up instead. You cannot live in a dream land where you can only do what you want to do...(in this case, program coding I guess) you need to make life, to make life, get money, to get money, you got to do that yourself. Of course, if some kind people's donation make your life, then that's happy.
FOSS guys aren't anything special, releasing stuff free doesn't suddenly make you a buddah. So... think again about getting money. If you hire some publicity and contracting guys instead of making it hackathon and such, maybe you can run a OpenBSD sell business that gets you enough money for hackathon and such, but I have no idea.
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