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Richard Stallman wrote: > > Developing programs does not "cost money"--that is just one way to do > it. But sometimes a person is in a position where he can develop a > certain program only if he makes it non-free to raise money. If you > are in such a position, unless you are going to make the program free > software soon after, then the best thing you can do is not develop it > at all. Someone else will develop a free program to do the job. > Freedom is worth the wait. > Richard; this lovely view of life works great for (and not meaning to belittle anybody's work here) small/self contained/trivial projects, characterised by unix tools/apps which can be managed by one or a few people in a reasonable timescale. I mean grep, sed, bison, dhcpd, sendmail etc But what about bigger projects? As stated previously, I develop computer games. It takes 30+ people 2-3years continous effort and $3M - 10$M in cash to produce. This just isn't viable, under your model. A group of part time hobbyists just aren't gonna complete a (non trivial) game in their lifetimes. You say "the best thing you can do is not develop it at all. Someone else will develop a free program to do the job." I sincerely doubt it. Sorry staff. Richard says you are all out of a job. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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