On 10/12/06, Rony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How does this statement involve you to upset you? "Except for Devdas who is not a follower of GNU, no other supporter of 'freedom' , 'open source', 'gnu' and 'gpl' gave any details of the motherboards they used for their clients." You don't have clients so stop getting fanatic. Thats the problem with GNU guys and I make this assumption after reading the entire thread.
I feel involved because I consider myself supporter of "Freedom" and "GPL" If you are targeting only a selected 4-5 people on the list why not take names? Stop beating around the bush and call them hypocrites directly
FOSS not only survives but is in top few slots in many categories. Like? ( In retail sales volume please ).
Survival of a software according to my definition is having considerable user base It has nothing to do with who earns how much on selling it. OpenOffice for example is surviving, no matter what are its sales figures. If your definition is different then we are on separate planes and there is no point in continuing this discussion
>> The whole issue is about giving the foss >> retail programmer his commercial due for writing the retail foss code >> that benefits all of us. It started with a comment on how a foss creator >> will make money. >> > > If you are good enough to write a CAD software on your own, > I am sure many companies will hire you to write FOSS software. > I am yet to come across a good FOSS programmer who is commercially > not successful. In the retail software segment? Having his own company?
Define commercial success. I consider myself commercially successful since my earnings are sufficient to support *my* lifestyle. It has nothing to do with owning a company. BTW Miguel De Icaza was in retail software, he did own his company and later he was hired by another firm to do what he does best. write FOSS. Google for others, I am not going to do all the homework for you. I already asked
the question to this list and I got the information I wanted. > But on second thought probably you are right. Making obscene money > is not the sole primary motive for many Free Software developers. > It is all about building a better society as I understand it. > Be careful, people supporting Open Source might not have this view. > So if you are motivated only by money and do not know how to do it > with FOSS then asking around how to do it will be of little help. Read my mail again.
Read my mail again -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
