On 04/27/2010 04:53 PM, Julio Biason wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:35 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > <zn...@comcast.net> wrote: >> Charging money is how we pay our expenses and earn enough profit to >> invest in research and development for the next generation applications. ;-) > > Just because it's open source it doesn't mean you can't charge for it. > So I'm guessing that's what John Meyer asked what open source have to > with money. > > As a matter of fact, Richard Stallman, to fund the development of the > GNU system, was selling copies of Emacs. Of course, it was not > licenses (like every big company do these days), but his work and the > media. >
I wasn't saying you couldn't charge for open source software. I was saying you'd have a tough time getting people to pay for *command line* tools. Sorry if I wasn't clear about that. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős
