For the life of me, I can't just understand how we programmers can make money from open source. I think it is pure evil and is just aimed at Microsoft. I am no supporter of Microsoft but a using open source to break them up carries unforseen negative circumstances.
Some few mad men just got up and said computer software should be free. Strangely they got a very large following even among programmers. That's why jobs are going down. Nobody wants to produce something when the target market can have a free alternative.
I will use a few examples to illustrate dislike for open source. Red Hat supplies linux and builds applications on top of that linux. Their server applications are not free(I stand to be corrected). One day when linux gets 20% of the market, Microsoft will decide to ditch windows and migrate to linux. They will add, features to linux that will allow users to migrate from windows. When they do this they will then use their much acclaimed marketing muscle to push all distributions of linux aside. What would have just happened would be that Microsot will make billions of the work of the Linux creators. If we think we will get even by switching to open source, we are in for a rude shock as they can benefit from this open source more than you and I.
Open source will bring down the software industry. I suspect that we programmers are also interested in making money from the work that we do. As long as other industries and services charge for their services and products, we should also charge for software. We may make it open source but the fact remains that we also want to be miliionaires. Living off donations will certainly not make us rich. To sum it all up, if we are not careful and we allow this "free open source madness" to continue, those same companies that we are trying to bring down will benefit. IBM, Oracle, Microsoft can make money from open source, but you and I will SURELY, i repeat SURELY not make any bucks from it.
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It seems everyone who posts on slashdot hates paying for software!
I think the M$ anti virus will be crap and no one will ever be inclined to spend money on it.
If you don't wnat to pay for anti virus, you can download AVG free edition or even better you can ditch windows completely!
It is definetely the fault of open source.
For the life of me, I can't just understand how we programmers can make money from open source. I think it is pure evil and is just aimed at Microsoft. I am no supporter of Microsoft but a using open source to break them up carries unforseen negative circumstances.
Some few mad men just got up and said computer software should be free. Strangely they got a very large following even among programmers. That's why jobs are going down. Nobody wants to produce something when the target market can have a free alternative.
I will use a few examples to illustrate dislike for open source. Red Hat supplies linux and builds applications on top of that linux. Their server applications are not free(I stand to be corrected). One day when linux gets 20% of the market, Microsoft will decide to ditch windows and migrate to linux. They will add, features to linux that will allow users to migrate from windows. When they do this they will then use their much acclaimed marketing muscle to push all distributions of linux aside. What would have just happened would be that Microsot will make billions of the work of the Linux creators. If we think we will get even by switching to open source, we are in for a rude shock as they can benefit from this open source more than you and I.
Open source will bring down the software industry. I suspect that we programmers are also interested in making money from the work that we do. As long as other industries and services charge for their services and products, we should also charge for software. We may make it open source but the fact remains that we also want to be miliionaires. Living off donations will certainly not make us rich.
To sum it all up, if we are not careful and we allow this "free open source madness" to continue, those same companies that we are trying to bring down will benefit. IBM, Oracle, Microsoft can make money from open source, but you and I will SURELY, i repeat SURELY not make any bucks from it.