It's IMHO called "shot first, draw circles later". The author thinks that Free Software/Open Source is a new economy, something that will change the world, and try to obtain an explanation to this "different human behavior". He forgot that, even if you code 12 hours/day, the other 12 hours you live in a real world, and all things around you, buildings, TV, food, etc are controlled by good old money. You can help your community and yourself programming, and it's a VERY GOOD THING (TM), but it's overall only 0.0001% of the world needs and does every day, and that won't change. Jesus said "love your fellow man like you love yourself". Why? because he knew that we love ourselves more than (almost) anything, it's part of the human behavior, that's what created capitalism "I worked a lot to produce this, if you wanna it you must pay something to me". That "something" is the only part that changes with Free Software. You're no more talking about money, but about earning public respect from your community and users, of feeling good inside for sontributing for a movement, or like being in a war against greedy buggy companies like MS, it's just that, when you gave up our rights of receiving money for our code, that was only because you was convinced that you could earn something that could have the same or more value than money, a totally selfish/capitalist vision, and that's ok!
>I don't think free software will stay in the >hands of purely unpaid volonteers forever.
"Unpaid volunteers"?! It's all you think programmers with free time are? Troll!! I don't try to understand women, and would never try to understand programmers/geeks. Yes we do work for 8 hours in front of a computer, and when we get home what we do? More computer time! If I help develop open software it's not just because I'm a "volunteer" for the open source movement, it's far more than that. Sometimes just plain curiosity: - "let's check how this dude did that function" Hey, it's wrong, if I change this two lines of code the routine will be a lot faster. And let's write an e-mail with thanks to the author for this great program and with this code correction. Sometimes is the "and if". You're using a program, ang think: "AND IF the program could do X thing automatically?". Then you open the code and implement some feature that the author didn't planned/needed, and voila, a better program. And once a year, you use a program and it doesn't work with that videocard or HD driver, then you strech-a-itchy and make the thing work.
And a lot more different reasons can make someone collaborate with the authors to improve a program, because it's fun, because it's cool, because have nothing to do on sundays, and none of the reasons above are related to money.
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It's IMHO called "shot first, draw circles later". The author thinks that Free Software/Open Source is a new economy, something that will change the world, and try to obtain an explanation to this "different human behavior".
He forgot that, even if you code 12 hours/day, the other 12 hours you live in a real world, and all things around you, buildings, TV, food, etc are controlled by good old money.
You can help your community and yourself programming, and it's a VERY GOOD THING (TM), but it's overall only 0.0001% of the world needs and does every day, and that won't change.
Jesus said "love your fellow man like you love yourself". Why? because he knew that we love ourselves more than (almost) anything, it's part of the human behavior, that's what created capitalism "I worked a lot to produce this, if you wanna it you must pay something to me". That "something" is the only part that changes with Free Software. You're no more talking about money, but about earning public respect from your community and users, of feeling good inside for sontributing for a movement, or like being in a war against greedy buggy companies like MS, it's just that, when you gave up our rights of receiving money for our code, that was only because you was convinced that you could earn something that could have the same or more value than money, a totally selfish/capitalist vision, and that's ok!
Sorry my poor english,
>I don't think free software will stay in the
>hands of purely unpaid volonteers forever.
"Unpaid volunteers"?! It's all you think programmers with free time are? Troll!! I don't try to understand women, and would never try to understand programmers/geeks. Yes we do work for 8 hours in front of a computer, and when we get home what we do? More computer time!
If I help develop open software it's not just because I'm a "volunteer" for the open source movement, it's far more than that. Sometimes just plain curiosity:
- "let's check how this dude did that function" Hey, it's wrong, if I change this two lines of code the routine will be a lot faster. And let's write an e-mail with thanks to the author for this great program and with this code correction.
Sometimes is the "and if". You're using a program, ang think: "AND IF the program could do X thing automatically?". Then you open the code and implement some feature that the author didn't planned/needed, and voila, a better program.
And once a year, you use a program and it doesn't work with that videocard or HD driver, then you strech-a-itchy and make the thing work.
And a lot more different reasons can make someone collaborate with the authors to improve a program, because it's fun, because it's cool, because have nothing to do on sundays, and none of the reasons above are related to money.