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

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:11:34 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> 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.

... and *quality* is as always lost somewhere between the lines.

>>>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.

The problem with the above is that neither of the components of this nice
formula is directly measurable, or stable. Otherwise, planned economy would
be possible, and also, be much more attractive than yours, because of its
physical rather spiritual way of acting.

> 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...

That is exactly a communist way of perception. No offense meant. You want
to change people to make them fit to your ideals. It is inhumane, at least.
(:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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