On 14/10/06 19:12 +0530, Rony wrote: <snip> > Hmm. So in reality, he did not earn any money from the sales of the > wonderful piece of software he created for the world, while everyone
You mean, like pre-IPO shares in RedHat? > down the line is making mega bucks installing, customizing and > maintaining his software. If the same was sponsored by a big foss > supporting institution he would have made money on the software too. > What part of "he made money from writing Linux, which he would not have made otherwise", do you not understand? > Whatever other benefits he received would have come his way even if he > made world famous closed software. I am not trying to pull down foss but Nope. He would have been too busy writing code to make that much money. Money is merely a way to keep score. Code it written for the challenge of writing it, and for having fun while doing so. > my point is that since it is for the people, it needs support from large FOSS is democratic. By the people, for the people. You are looking at only the financial aspect of FOSS. The people responding to you don't. Merely looking at the short term balance sheet leads leads to things like burning petroleum regardless of enviornmental impact, DRM and copyright additions, regardless of the incredible damage it does to the creative arts .... Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
