sorry for the double postin :((. gmail told me it cldnt send the earlier mail so I hit the send button once more.. Chers Dhanvi
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:29:17 -0500, Mr. Dhanvi Kapila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
