On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Gary Trakhman <gary.trakh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Open-source developers are paid for their work in lots of ways that > may/may-not involve cash. > But generally they're paid as they work, and if they stop working, they stop getting paid, like in most jobs. Of course, the actual coders of closed-source software like Windows also stop getting paid if they stop working; it's the big company that hired them that gets to keep raking it in without necessarily having to do any more work. > Commercial devs and products are not necessarily evil, and can be good for > the community. > Did I claim otherwise? I just thought it odd that people would make unpaid contributions to nonfree software. Seems kind of like donating money to Apple instead of to a local soup kitchen. Who cares if software gets bought over and over again? That's the beauty of > software! Competition actually still drives improvement in this space > (Jetbrains is not Microsoft). > > This is kind of like an open source version of the the software-piracy > 'lost sale' argument, a 'lost contribution' argument. Not every > open-source plugin developer for a commercial product would have > contributed to an open-source project instead. > I don't think I claimed that either. On the other hand, one can make an argument that the plugin developer may be being taken advantage of, if they are essentially improving a *commercial* product (and only a commercial product, rather than a wide, interoperable array of both commercial and free products) gratis. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
