The idea that it is somehow a sin to charge for a good software product and the Constitutional right of Everyman to Every Other Man's source code at no cost is one of many factors bringing down the civilized order of society these days. Why software, as distinct from any other kind of product one might create, "must" be free as a matter of socio-political dogma I never have quite gotten.
I don't mind if people want to provide open source software, and am not opposed to it in principal -- one should be free to give one's stuff away. There are some things I am working on that I simply don't have profit motive to work on, so I'm open sourcing them. I just don't like "viral" open source licenses that moralize about the matter. I like SQLite's license best of all: ** May you do good and not evil. ** May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others. ** May you share freely, never taking more than you give. The "programmer as professional mendicant and servant of the collective good" attitude of most goose-stepping open source software zealots -- especially the hard-core copylefties at FSF under Comrade Richard Stallman's premeirship -- is depressing wages and making overseas talent look a lot more attractive. IMHO, it's great for behomoths like Oracle, IBM, Novell, even MS, but open source makes it very hard for smaller shops to thrive on their work. I was recently looking into an Ada compiler (don't ask, I won't tell) and you either have to be big enough to pay huge bucks for a commercial version, or swallow the whole GPL 3.0, and every viral hook it sinks in your digital flesh. A friend of mine in the compiler business has been decimated by the trend. It's designed to force medium players out, and keep smaller players down, basically. Same principle with do-gooder con games like cap and trade. Is it any wonder Enron and Goldman Sachs love the idea? Thanks, Dick (Stallman). All you Dicks, in fact. :) - Publius On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Stephen Russell <srussell...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Grigore Dolghin <gdolg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 3999 usd????? > ----------------------------- > > Novel was never cheap. Get over it. hahahahaha You thought that you > were getting free beer? > > Just look at it as get the personal version to get yourself through > dev. Pay for the middle one for test, 1000 usd and if there looks to > be a lot of interest you then up the anti to enterprise for everyone > world wide. > > You make an app for .99 usd and 5000 people download it the first week > because of your marketing you are ahead. If someone in that first > 5000 helps you go viral you win big time. > > > > > -- > Stephen Russell > Sr. Production Systems Programmer > SQL Server DBA > Web and Winform Development > Independent Contractor > Memphis TN > > 901.246-0159 > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/56f880750911181312r6f50152dq79f21893b352c...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
