----- 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".
I think you are changing the subject to make a point.
We are discussing the software built into cameras, not the fun and games
that script kiddies like to play at.
No wonder I hammer nails for a living.
That industry's been hit even harder than the software industry these
days.
I guess it depends on where you live. I'm still living in boomtown.
Writing software is a development cost not a production cost. NRE,
Non-Recurring Expense.
Until the next piece of hardware comes down the pike that needs new software
written for it, or until a firmware improvement is needed, or until users
start to report bugs and glitches that require a rewrite, anyway.
William Robb
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