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Making Money In Open Source
Khalid writes "An interview with Sleepycat President and CEO, Michael Olson, it brings a lot of interesting information about their business model and licensing scheme. A lot of good ideas, when a lot of open source based companies are struggling for life. "
You should put this on the internal company bulletin board rather than on Slashdot.
Mad propz to AC micropenises everywhere.
:o)
This is the great troll of legend! You are my hero!
May I suck onto your penis?
We are gathered here today to remember Jon Katz Jr, son of Jon "Satan" Katz, his senior. Jon Katz, as his plump, fat, and juicy sidekick, CornCob Nelly, described, was a nervous wreck in the remaining days of his life.
"He drank alot, never slept well at night, and whenever Timothy complained, in bed, about his foul genital odor, Jon would get all angry and abusive and would ass-rape poor timothy. I stopped seing Jon two and a half years ago; surviving 3 induced duodenum ruptures and having half of my intestine removed due to the infections afterwards. Not to mention, being in bed with Jon has caused me to lose my two front teeth; he's verry fiesty over his blowjobs you know... All these criteria have added upto the downsizing of Linux corporations, Linux users and supporters, and the overall loss of profitability in OSDN and our website forum www.slashdot.org." -Rob (CmdrTaco)
Let's see...
"Microsoft is evil"
"Microsoft is an anticompetitive monopoly"
".net is the end of the world as we know it"
"Fuck the RIAA"
"You can pry my DECSS from my cold, dead fingers"
Then you turn around and peddle open source as a way of making money.
Oxymoron anyone?
Pedro
http://veraperez.com
Pedro
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The Insomniac Coder
The story *could* be a hoax (as are more than we like, even in the *accepted* stories lately, but WhoTF can tell, moreover, isn't almost every /. reader conditioned to this and ready to investigate and report it as such?
The post in question was regarding postal facilities in Texas. Is that so far from KC, MO? *NO*.
CNN is *not* reporting it, but if you can follow the link I provided, KC news *IS*.So is MSNBC... [msn.com]
So, those of you *blessed* with mod privs, start thinking out of the same "rare" brain-vein that Taco did on 9/11 - "Stuff that matters" never rang truer! As a community, if we can raise awareness, then WHY NOT DO IT?
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Have you ever just considered developing proprietary software....?
This is exactly the problem... OSS is developed by college kids living off of mommy and daddy, or by people in their free time because they think it's 'kewl', and that same work literally takes food out of the mouths of professional programmers who program to make a living. Right now, 99.99% of all IT jobs are NOT in developing OSS. But if enough people develop OSS code, there will be less and less need for 'professional' programmers. Thus, there'll be a bunch of people programmign for free, while their day job is at Dairy Queen. Nice. Real nice.
Exactly. Me too. That's exactly why I don't develop anything OSS. College kids don't seem to realize that once you have mortgage payments and a family (ie: once you grow up), that OSS is no longer fun or 'kewl'.