Perhaps you missed one of the goals of Open source.... sharing of ideas.... More inovations occur when you share ideas, not when you keep them a secret. Companies can still make a lot of money off of open source... take red hat for example... or any of the major distributors of linux...
Open sourcing also forces companies to rely on thier products actual merit, not that products dependance on other products that the company makes... ummm hello Office.... that is why MS won't release office for linux... not because people wouldn't buy it, they are afraid that they would.. and stop buying windows. Its Office and other such programs that force people into buying thier crappy OS.
Money to Universities... ha... they do that so the students will be used to working with MS crap and feel they need MS crap or they can't function properly... like say visual C++.... who needs it... no one... use a text editor... and an open source compiler...
As far as you not making six figures, perhaps you should go and work for MS. They will always need programmers to keep "Inovating" or stealing ideas to put into thier next OS. They also need more PR people to make the herd of sheep think they need Windows.
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Perhaps you missed one of the goals of Open source.... sharing of ideas.... More inovations occur when you share ideas, not when you keep them a secret. Companies can still make a lot of money off of open source... take red hat for example... or any of the major distributors of linux... Open sourcing also forces companies to rely on thier products actual merit, not that products dependance on other products that the company makes... ummm hello Office.... that is why MS won't release office for linux... not because people wouldn't buy it, they are afraid that they would.. and stop buying windows. Its Office and other such programs that force people into buying thier crappy OS. Money to Universities... ha... they do that so the students will be used to working with MS crap and feel they need MS crap or they can't function properly... like say visual C++.... who needs it... no one... use a text editor... and an open source compiler... As far as you not making six figures, perhaps you should go and work for MS. They will always need programmers to keep "Inovating" or stealing ideas to put into thier next OS. They also need more PR people to make the herd of sheep think they need Windows.