On 5/10/14 11:16 PM, Nelson Crosby wrote:
I also believe in this more 'BSD-like' view, but from a business
point of view. No one is going to invest in a business that can't
guarantee against piracy, and such a business is much less likely
to receive profit (see Ardour).
Don't get me wrong - I love free software. It's seriously awesome
to see what a community can do. But at the same time, some people want
to earn a living from writing code. That is simply not possible
without proprietary software.
That's just the point...
The twenty-first century is not going to be about making money by moving
bits around a network, nor about making money writing code. It is going
to be about making money|living (whatever that means) by leveraging free
networking (think libre box) and by leveraging free (as in libre)
software and libre software engineering.
In other words, no longer are coders going to make a living writing
proprietary code; rather, coders are going to make a living leveraging
their skill writing libre software (in the specialized problem domain
needing their resources --- free agents, have skill, will travel, or
connect).
So, I go to work for some technical scientific research outfit that just
got a federal grant for yadda yadda... and I bring in my toolkit|toobox
(julia, haskell, python, C++ &c whatever) and I make a living coding
within that specialized domain. I don't market the app (& they don't
either). The killer app in the 21st century IS the unix distro
(gnu/linux), and the toolbox is (mine, or yours).
We are going to stop purchasing software across the board, and we are
going to share. In the process we are going to make our livings with our
skills, services, innovations towards specialized problem domains
through leveraged technical specialty, and by working together to better
the whole.
This is already occurring.
marcus
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