Hi all, After a long discussion with someone about the GPL and the open source model of business, he raised a point which i cant find any very valid argument, maybe you guys will be able to gimme your point on this:
The idea is that developping free sofware leads the author to it's own professional death: if the opensource movement works to it's extreme extend, what will happens to the company that sell whatever proprietary sofware ? It's faith is death or recycling. As most of the opensource developpers are professionals, this directly leads them to a no job future. The extended idea he raises is that developping an opensource software simply cut any value of the work we do. My point of view is that the business model of a simple software engineering company will have to move towards service integration and consultancy, but this is true that in a way this movement may lead a major change in the industry. JeF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
