[Tfug] [OT] Microsoft Windows 7: Upgrade or just buy a pizza?

[keith smith]

I think most programmers make money working for someone else.  If that someone is giving away their goods then where does that money come from.

A good model to look at is RHEL vs CentOS.


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Keith Smith




--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Terence Rudkin <trudkin at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Terence Rudkin <trudkin at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] [OT] Microsoft Windows 7: Upgrade or just buy a pizza?
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 8:18 PM



On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:09 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:




??? then how would coders make money ???You think M$ coder make money. Only inverter make money.  Look at company like CA and BMC, Charging big license fees and producing noting in return. 


Coder make money by producing something the markets wants.  But be careful, someone will come along and  market it and make some real money. 





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Keith Smith




--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Zack Williams <zdwzdw at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] [OT] Microsoft Windows 7: Upgrade or just buy a pizza?

To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 7:52 PM

>     * Consumer confusion (and subsequent anger) about what they are

> paying for in the first place

Which, when it comes down to it, is pretty much nothing.   What you
get when you buy software licensing is the emperor's new
 clothes.

That said, I for one want to see every license enforced in the most
draconian method possible.  It would be the single best way to get
people to adopt truly free and open source software.

> Of course, the *real* question you should be asking, here, is:

> WITH or WITHOUT anchovies?

With, of course!

- Zack

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