On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:52:28 +0530, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 6:41 pm, Mukund N Rathi wrote: > > If everything in the world goes OSS and Free... what will we eat. with > > WE I mean Software Developers? > The same stuff that authors would eat if everything they wrote was available > to anyone who could buy a book and read ...oh wait ...that's how it already > works !?!! hoow do we have so many livng authors ?? hey Steve.. nice one.but books are proprierty.. they arent FREE.. you have to pay to get hold of them.. also its the sme as in Music.. its available to be heard everywhere but u still need to *BUY* a CD incase u want ur own personal copy.
sw enggrs wld be paid for FREE sw since not everybody would know how to trouble shoot a problem and all sw have problems.. so we make money thru help centers :)).. so free software encourages BPOs :)).. better customer support, fast adaptation to customer needs would get the developer money. also companies pay for stable and secure solutions, free or otherwise.. they need something that they can bank on to "fill it - shut it and forget it " u do that n u get paid.. my 2 cents.. Cheers °v° kapila * .dhanvi 2.0.0 /(_)\ http://kapiladhanvi.myensim.net ^ ^ Master of Science - Texas A & M University the good ones may be taken.. but the best are still waiting for me -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
