So do I, but that has nothing to do with OSS. What is free software?
So do I, but that has nothing to do with OSS. What is free software?
I know the fine differences, but in practice it's nearly the same as "free beer":
"You may have paid money to get copies of free software, or you may have obtained copies at no charge. But regardless of how you got your copies, you always have the freedom to copy and change the software, even to sell copies."
[source: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html]
That means, if Coca Cola would deliver me their soft drink together with their recipe (open source), I would be able to change their recipe or leave it the same and sell my own product with it. Personally I have no problem, if they would decide to do something like that, but I'm not sure how much employees would be fired after that. Not every freedom comes without a price.
Remi
Yes! Exactly! And when coca cola co. decide not to support your bottle of coke anymore, and instead are trying to get you to buy coca cola version 2.1 which doesnt offer any advantage, you can make bugfixes for it yourself or hire someone else to do it. Isnt that Great?
lol....i like this discussion...actually I was the owner of a bakery for 10 years and we used give our recepies to our customers all the time, and guess what the company is still in business makin as much money if not more as when I was there. And no one, not single person managed bake anything that looked or tasted anything like our products. So dont worry, you will still get your billions.
Just to include in discusion.... but for me here has some contradiction....
You like programmer make some free for me software
I like designer use your software and make my own product ie design which I cell for some money to third persons ie clients...
After some time line you still be there creating some free software for somebody
I will have my money
It is not fully fear I think
For that my opinion is that if no body didnt pay for creation of software in some time programmer will stop to work, becouse in our world money are motive power.
And for that by my opinion linux didnt rise so fast, he still is in some startup position, and almost havent PRO grafics software for him
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