On Monday 05 February 2007 11:37 pm, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
[snip]
>         I have absolutely no interest in earning money from my free
>  software endeavors, and I know loads of people who share my
>  sentiments.  Indeed, this seems to be the dominant viewpoint of the
>  Debian developers, based on our most recent flamewar.

Out of interest, how do you earn your money?

>         So no, I have not yet bought into the thesis that everyone
>  wants to make money from free software; though I find the direction
>  that hypothesis leads to interesting.

FWIW, he did say

> > If there is anyone in the list who is not
> >  interested in earning money, please let me know.

I fully sympathize with the sentiment that the earning of money need
not be a primary nor even a secondary concern. But hacker bellies often
need feeding, and internet access and clothing are sometimes nice too.

-Taj.




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