Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Marin David Condic wrote:
> I write software for a living. That's how I pay the bills.
 > I trade my labor in exchange for fungible assets and everyone wins.
 > Hence, I have a tendency to not want to work for free so
> that some other party can make money from my labor.

But how much of GPLed code was actually written for free?
A lot of it was written under grants, or in universities,
or under government contracts. I would guess that most
GPLed code was written by people who were being paid in
some fashion for the work they were doing. One obvious
example is that Linus Torvalds himself was working on
Linux while being employed by TransMeta. Another is the
set of contributions that IBM has made to Linux.

So IBM makes money, RedHat makes money, ACT makes money,
Zope makes money. They all employ programmers who are making
money working on free software.