On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> wrote:

>
> If you own an apartment in a building with elevators, you have to pay
> service charges to the company that maintains it.
>
> With all due respect, where's the motivation for the poor bugger who
writes the free software?  I believe that there is still something missing
from this equation.



> If the software and specifications are free, you have a wider choice of
> companies to maintain the elevator and the service charges would
> potentially be lower.
>

So it's okay to pay the company to maintain the elevator but not the
software developer?  Where's the motivation for the software developer?
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