Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then how?

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> I definitely agree with "paid." The rest is easy who pays, how and for
> what. (:-))

For writing software, for helping with writing software,
for writing compilers that let you produce software, etc.


>>I would feel much better if people understood that each of us
>>can make a living when the others can do that, too.

> a charity-driven developing rather than
> welfare-driven one. Is it better?

No, not charity.
Just a calculation by "production parties" P(i) based on these premises:

(a) work needs to be done,
(b) there exist paying customers.

Why should, for any i, P(i) be fighting to get all of (a), hence
all of (b)? If you ponder this a bit, from several points of view,
you'll see it's nonsense.

But of course, it seems our kids are taught that it makes a lot of sense
to fight everyone else off from any resource, even though this resource
will just feed you beyond 450 pounds, metaphorically speaking.
Some other tribe could hog your wild boar...