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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, HK_RANDOM_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,afb4d45672b1e262 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!atl-c05.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!cycny01.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trnddc06.POSTED!20ae255c!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Justin Gombos Subject: Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then how? References: <7NOdne-iYtWmIafZnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d@megapath.net> <292bf$443bb4e4$45491254$20549@KNOLOGY.NET> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:10:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.44.77.228 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trnddc06 1144851027 129.44.77.228 (Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:10:27 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:10:27 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3786 Date: 2006-04-12T14:10:27+00:00 List-Id: On 2006-04-11, Randy Brukardt wrote: > "Justin Gombos" wrote in message > news:z5S_f.4049$XI6.1174@trnddc05... >> There are intrinsic rewards with creating GNU software. When you say >> "rewarding" here, are you talking purely in terms of remuneration >> (that is, extrinsic rewards)? > > I don''t see any reason to restrict the intrinsic rewards to "GNU > software". Nor do I. > But that doesn't provide a means of support. No matter what benefits > to overall society there are, if the individual creators cannot > support themselves, they'll have to do something else. That's right. Creators need to make money - but not necessarily off their creations. If they can, great! > Which means no creations at all. You can't conclude that. If that were a true statement, we would not have the rich library of GNU software that exists today. Why? Because there's nothing to stop a GNU developer from having a day job. I suspect most self supporting GNU developers have day jobs. > I don't see any intrinsic reason that "open source" has to be > incompatible with capitalism, but it's quite important that the > creators get some of the rewards. Sure, but the rewards don't have to be extrinsic. Intrinsic rewards are substantial enough to motivate open source development. -- PM instructions: do a C4esar Ciph3r on my address; retain punctuation.