On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:39:09PM -0700, SJS wrote:
begin quoting Todd Walton as of Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:13:01PM -0500:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:55 PM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Having no options is not more freedom than having more options.
There's probably an argument there.
It's been argued that open-source has killed the market for software
development tools.
> Nothing wrong with programmers making a decent wage as programmers.
With the implication that programmers who write GPL'd code don't make
a decent wage? Why do so many programmers choose to do it?
Most of the programmers I have met do not make a _living_ writing GPL
software; they do it on the side, they do it for fun, they're students
or professors, or they do it for an employer who makes money in other
ways.
There are a few places where there are good revenue streams for GPL code,
such as the Linux kernel. True, people don't make money directly selling
the kernel, but they might spend a lot less adding support for their custom
hardware to Linux than developing a fresh OS, or paying for something else.
Google seems to be trying to do something with it:
<http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/android_overview.html>
although they just seem to use words like "Open" when referring to their
code, the Linux kernel is certainly going to have to stay GPL.
David
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