From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-14 10:19:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <3F3A39E6.1070803@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:05:03 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1060880690 198.96.223.163 (Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:04:50 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:04:50 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41464 Date: 2003-08-14T13:05:03-04:00 List-Id: Georg B. wrote: > Marin David Condic wrote: > : > : I have a tendency to not want to work for free so > : that some other party can make money from my labor. > > This is essential. There might be a balance between you making > enough money to pay your bills and some other party taking away > your money (price dumping, other tricks.) Actually, that is a very good point that is easy to overlook (price dumping)! You could expend a half a lifetime developing something like a Netscape browser, and then market it. M$ sees how useful this is and either tries to buy you out, or just creates one of its own and then just gives it away. Based on history, I'd say you'd be better off taking the M$ offer, given the way the outcome works. But you'd have to be left "feeling dirty" with M$ money. ;-) This has happened at all software size levels, from what I can see. Where is the profit in this? If I release my software free, (under the GPL), this actually puts M$ at a disadvantage. That thought, warms my heart ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg