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FSF Wants Your Vouchers
Ridgelift writes "California residents can help support the Free Software Foundation by donating their Microsoft vouchers to the FSF. In turn, the FSF will be able to convert the vouchers into hardware. There's more information here at the FSF website. With 1.1 billion dollars in vouchers Microsoft is forced to pay through the recent anti-trust court case, it's satisfying to see some of those fortunes being spent to help create good software for a change."
So... if you charge for software, you're immoral?
evil adrian
Whether it will fail or not is pure speculation.
It is known that corporate funded proprietary software is almost always better than non corporate funded software.
Not so. Look at Windows ten years after it's inception, and Linux now. Open source development is a process that works, given time. Free sofware has no development model attached to it, but the simple ability for end users to test and submit bug reports often negates any monetary incentives proprietary software provides in terms of progress.
A good example would be games.>/i>
Games are outside the scope of mere software development. These days, they're developed more by "Hollywood" than "Silicon Valley." Can the open source development model work for artwork, music, cinematics, etc.? Possibly, but there hasn't yet been a proper project to test this. Furthermore, there aren't many OSS-inspired artists like there are OSS-inspired developers.
Most programmers (including me) do not want to work for free. I want to be paid to program something because there is no way in hell that I'm going to be a cashier for a living.
That has nothing to do with whether or not proprietary software will fail.
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is that what micro$loth produces? 'software'? i agree that what they produce does start with an 's' though.
i'd donate all the vouchers to get RMS to stop singing.