If you can get something for free (that meets your needs) you take it. If you can't, you make it or buy it.
If cars became free, the car companies as we know them would disappear. People getting paid to do something keeps them motivated (much like the reason you complain about work but still go each day). People not getting paid are altruists.
I like this view:
Why does Open Source Software exist?
If I try to sell it and no one buys it, sucks for me, but it doesnt affect you.
Feel free to give away all the software you want. Personally, if someone makes money off a program I wrote, I have no problem if I get paid for my work. But again - to each his own.
Yay - another microbenchmark. And this tells us what - that the Java JIT guys have the advantage of runtime dynamic performance manipulations of small loops?
If I get a T1 in my home/biz for lets say $1000 a month I can get way more than something like 400gb in one month (according to my sloppy math, a T1 could push 400gb in about 3 days).
Sure I have to take care of my own boxes, but software-wise - I do already. Hardware-wise it just means better and cheaper upgrades.
Not to mention I have a spiffy T1 for my own use.
For hands-on types of folks - isnt this a viable option?
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If you can get something for free (that meets your needs) you take it. If you can't, you make it or buy it. If cars became free, the car companies as we know them would disappear. People getting paid to do something keeps them motivated (much like the reason you complain about work but still go each day). People not getting paid are altruists. I like this view: Why does Open Source Software exist?
This article sums it up: I've invented the greatest compression algorithm ever .. and I'm keeping it a secret
Your journal is dead on!
I dont get all this.
If you want to write software and give it away, I have no problem with that.
If I want to write software and not give it away (and sell it), that should be my business.
Check out this article.
If I try to sell it and no one buys it, sucks for me, but it doesnt affect you.
Feel free to give away all the software you want. Personally, if someone makes money off a program I wrote, I have no problem if I get paid for my work. But again - to each his own.
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Yay - another microbenchmark. And this tells us what - that the Java JIT guys have the advantage of runtime dynamic performance manipulations of small loops?
I wonder how far this will go? What about the free disposable email services? Mailinator or jetable next?
The topic would be fun.. but this article sucked. It was boring as snot. Some reput indeed.
If I get a T1 in my home/biz for lets say $1000 a month I can get way more than something like 400gb in one month (according to my sloppy math, a T1 could push 400gb in about 3 days). Sure I have to take care of my own boxes, but software-wise - I do already. Hardware-wise it just means better and cheaper upgrades. Not to mention I have a spiffy T1 for my own use. For hands-on types of folks - isnt this a viable option?