On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:12:45 +0530, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 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?
Not from my free software projects. I work for a company that
does research for the DARPA.
>> 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.
I like food, yes. But that does not mean that I need to
make money off free software -- there was an interesting blog post
about the problems associated with trying to make money off free
software:
http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/02/03/in-thrall-to-scarcity
The conclusion he reached was that you needed some kind of scarcity
to make good money -- even though consulting implies that the
scarcity is a deep knowledge.
I didn't get into contributing to free software to
artificially create scarcity in order to benefit from it.
manoj
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