| Hi, one way is to protect developers and their open source software products, another is to provide FSF with extra financing from embedded hardware manufactures, incorporating Linux based software solutions. In each case there is a need for calculations, assessment of open source software development costs, charges, fees, basing on some real life examples. For TomTom and others, once developed Linux applications can generate millions, duplicated with each car navigation device sold. Others, like Approsoftware.com, sell open source Linux based software as a commercial product bundled with hardware lock key. One way to go is to ask developers and discover, how much money they expect to get, if any, from manufacturers of embedded hardware devices, appliances. Linux Thorvald is the right person to speak to and ask for proposals and solutions. Linux based open source applications wre ok for open hardware PC computers. Today any laptop/palmtop can run hardware locked Linux based open source applications, sold as a commercial product. It's up to developers of any such application in development tree to request or not some form of gratification for his/her job/work and input in the final product. In intellectual property transfer business, one good idea gets patented and earns a lot of money and the alike idea is published for free on the net at the same time and generates no profit to its author at all. As any part of source code has its author, unfortunately no signature affixed in text file form I have setup Open Source Software - Google group http://groups.google.com/group/opensource2 authors, developers of open source code, applications, can post their respective input in development of the Linux based open source code, applications, claiming their rights to be covered by the New Global Alliance, given signed one day. New Global Alliance in Open Source Software, representing developers, coders on one side, manufacturers of Linux based hardware embedded devices, appliances, systems and FSF, Linus and others volunteering their work, time any such Open Source Software New Global Alliance to be concluded. It is not good to have open source applications, developments offered for free to download and at the same time offered as a commercial product at a "reasonable fee". It's a good business idea to have free workers in IT business to work for free but it is not fair to offer their product for fee , as a commercial product. Linux based open source software has a status of community effort, work and there is no need to let few make really big money, basing on work donated by the community for the community for free. Darius --- On Thu, 8/5/08, David Bolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: David Bolter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |
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