Packagning programs as an economic model
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I have some thoughts about the Red Hat (SuSE, Caldera... ) way to make money. What had RedHat Inc. been without the thousands of volunteer programmers???
That I'm trying to say is that free software and capitalism isn't a great combination. (This is a purely economic question, personally I agree to 100% that free software is the best method to develop software technology).
------------------------------------------------ A hypothetic question: If the propetiary software software business dies, who will then finance the programmers, so they can buy their food, their Coca Cola, and thier computers, on which they are programming their free software ??? ------------------------------------------------
The only way to earn money (with the GPL license) is to sell support. And how many companies will buy support? Many will probably use company internal knowledge to solve their problems. And what about private persons?
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I have some thoughts about the Red Hat (SuSE, Caldera ... ) way to make money. What had RedHat Inc. been without the thousands of volunteer programmers???
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That I'm trying to say is that free software and capitalism isn't a great combination. (This is a purely economic question, personally I agree to 100% that free software is the best method to develop software technology).
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A hypothetic question: If the propetiary software software business dies, who will then finance the programmers, so they can buy their food, their Coca Cola, and thier computers, on which they are programming their free software ???
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The only way to earn money (with the GPL license) is to sell support. And how many companies will buy support? Many will probably use company internal knowledge to solve their problems. And what about private persons?
Any suggestions?