Mark Norton;148182 Wrote: > Is Open Source really a philanthropic gesture? Does it matter that you > might struggle to pay the bills/fix up the car/put your kid through > college as long as somebody really likes your sort algortihm? Isn't > there a tinge of envy out there, a feeling that it should have been > you?I have always felt that it had to be. I've been a developer for over twenty years but I have never understood how distributing my work for free would keep my mortgage lender happy. I just don't see it.
I can understand why you'd do it (and I've done it on a small scale in newsgroups) but surely it has to be philanthropic. That being the case - why are so many people so keen on making everything open source? -- AndrueC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrueC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6612 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28873 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
