Larry, don't forget viruses - not only they're written for free, the
critters face jail for their distribution.
LF
Larry Colen escreveu:
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:10:27AM -0600, William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Colen"
Subject: Re: point and shoot
Most of those features are purely software, so don't add anything to
production cost.
Software writers work for free?
A lot do. A lot of software is being written for reasons other than
financial motivation. For example a Finnish college kid named Linus
Torvalds wrote the basis of an operating system for the fun of it. The
upside of this is there is a lot of software available for free, the
downside is that if you want to sell your software, it's tough to
compete on price with "free".
No wonder I hammer nails for a living.
That industry's been hit even harder than the software industry these days.
Writing software is a development cost not a production cost. NRE,
Non-Recurring Expense.
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