People who demand something for nothing will be limited in the products and support they get.
Again, you along with so many others do not understand the Open Source concept. The mindset of "getting something for nothing" is the jargon of American Big Business, it has little or nothing to do with quality, value, support, security or anything else. You would do as well to read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" Cliff
hi all, On Freitag, 2. Februar 2001 16:06, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
People who demand something for nothing will be limited in the products and support they get.
Again, you along with so many others do not understand the Open Source concept. The mindset of "getting something for nothing" is the jargon of American Big Business, it has little or nothing to do with quality, value, support, security or anything else.
You would do as well to read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
i strongly suggest everybody talking 'bout open software to read that ! also "homestanding the noosphere" is of interrest ! they all should avoid statements like "for nothing" unless they have read at least these two articles ! otherwise they should avoid any statement about the quality, support etc. of open software, because unless they readed it they won't know the truth 'bout open software et all. (at least thats what i think ....) greets, chris -- visit me at http://mamalala.de
I think you do not get Open Source. I was very careful to say zero
cost. Open Source is free as in speech, not necessarily free as in beer.
I have read CnB plus the Noosphere and Magic Cauldron essays,
several times. I have heard him speak. He is an interesting speaker
with ideas worth considering.
I have an Open Source project thru the Source Exchange. My dayjob
is subsizing it. It does not pay enough to live on. I have looked
carefully at all the business models that ESR has written about. He
has left one out, the starving artist. As a software developer who
does not like big business, that is the one most available to me. I
don't work for a hardware company that is willing to subsidize
software to sell hardware, etc.
I will use zero cost software. I will also pay for software. I
buy SuSE. Not every release, the disruption of a full update costs me
too much time. I also do not whine that I want the latest, completely
tested for nothing. That is not a sustainable business model and I
know it. I want SuSE to be around for 7.x.
I am quite aware that open source software is among some of the
highest quality software around. I know that there is little
correlation between cost and quality. I also know that ripping off
starving artists is not the best way to get more of their work and I
don't consider it moral.
To restrict myself to zero cost products is limiting. To restrict
myself to expensive products is also limiting.
If you like Open Source software, give it some support: money, bug
fixes, documentation, word of mouth publicity, etc. Pay cover charges
and tip the musicians you like. Same for programmers, testers, etc.
Jeffrey
Quoting Cliff Sarginson
People who demand something for nothing will be limited in the products and support they get.
Again, you along with so many others do not understand the Open Source concept. The mindset of "getting something for nothing" is the jargon of American Big Business, it has little or nothing to do with quality, value, support, security or anything else.
You would do as well to read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
Cliff
-- I don't do Windows and I don't come to work before nine. -- Johnny Paycheck
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