On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Friday, December 28, 2001):
Tech support? Free downloads, but boxed packages that you pay for if you
choose? Heh...sound familiar? Just a thought...
The company I work for actually doesn't sell boxed sets. The total
download is
If software were free how could the employees of the software company
be paid to begin with?
Lots (most?) non-profit organizations' employees draw salaries.
Someone mentioned internet development as an example of free software
helping us all. I saw the guy that wrote the
On Friday 28 December 2001 09:49 am, you wrote:
This list like to MS-bash. A lot. Be careful in your MS-bashing, though;
they made most of the tech revolution possible. Without MS the tech
industry as we know it would be much smaller (most of us wouldn't have jobs
in tech), we would probably
True, but there is also another side to the story. What about the end users, who
will _save_ money by using free software. Corporations spend massive amounts of
money on buggy, insecure software. If the software was free, all this money
could be saved, and the employees could be paid more (or
If software were free how could the employees of the software company be
paid to begin with?
I'm sorry, but by this logic you could say, Instead of spending all that
money on a down payment and mortgage, think of all the money I could save
by just moving into the first house I see.
doug
Maybe we don´t need enormous software companies to do the job, just
idealistic men like the ones moving the opensource world.
And if someone offers free houses (and better than the one i'm paying for)
wouldn`t you move??
Gonzalo
From: Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If software were free how
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:33:06 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If software were free how could the employees of the software company be
paid to begin with?
I am not arguing that all software should be free. I am simply stating that in
some cases I believe that the free software model
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001):
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:33:06 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If software were free how could the employees of the software company be
paid to begin with?
I am not arguing that all software should be free. I am simply stating
that
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote:
If software were free how could the employees of the software company be
paid to begin with?
Tech support? Free downloads, but boxed packages that you pay for if you
choose? Heh...sound familiar? Just a thought...
I'm sorry, but by this logic you
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:23:45 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001):
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:33:06 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If software were free how could the employees of the software company be
paid to begin
Doug Lerner wrote:
A little common sense can apply here. Certainly there are some examples
that are obvious. For example, the letter a is obviously public domain.
But C code that actually does something useful and was created with the
effort of a developer - that is obviously different, isn't
Whether a pot is the result of thousands of years of accumulated
knowledge about ceramics shouldn't matter. Somebody has to still decide
to put forth the labor required to make an instance of the pot. After he
or she does so it is the maker's thing to profit from.
doug
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On a day-to-day basis, if you want to have a working economy, where
people can support themselves then, for sure, it makes more sense to
compensate labor and effort which can be attributed. In other words, pay
the programmers who create programs.
The compensation to society for providing the
This is an interesting discussion. I agree with some of your points, but
am not convinced by others. For example, if a company hires a dozen
programmers and they spend a year creating and tweaking and debugging
code, even if you think the company has no right to the *idea* (I am not
convinced of
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 20:08, you wrote:
This is an interesting discussion. I agree with some of your points, but
am not convinced by others. For example, if a company hires a dozen
programmers and they spend a year creating and tweaking and debugging
code, even if you think the company
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:30:18 +0900
Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder:
A little common sense can apply here. Certainly there are some examples
that are obvious. For example, the letter a is obviously public domain.
But C code that actually does something
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