A: What's the most obnoxious thing on Usenet? Q: topposting. "Dan Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "fuzzylollipop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> no it was a sideways remark at all the software socialists that thing >> EVERYTHING should be free, never said anything about Eclipse, just the >> people that insist ALL software should be free. > Interesting. I've never met anyone like that. If they are in high tech, > they must be hardware people, otherwise how would they make a living? And > I'm not sure "socialists" is the correct term in this case, it sounds to me > more like "communists". Or "liberals" for our friends in the US.
I have. They make a living supporting free software. Take a look at www.zope.com and www.zope.org for an example (to be clear, I am *not* claiming that the folks at zope believe that all software should be free. Merely that they make a living off software they give away for free.) There have been other examples of such before. There was a group that made a living porting GCC to vender-specific hardware platforms, one condition being that the port wound up in the GCC suite. I believe they got bought by redhat. Phillip Greenspun once ran a company on this model as well. It did well until the venture capatalists took it over. You can read his views on software pricing at <URL: http://philip.greenspun.com/research/software-pricing >. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
