will lack of corporate support kill off Linux?
Duston, Hal
hdusto01 at sprintspectrum.com
Fri Jul 13 17:25:31 CDT 2001
Well, I think part of what is missing here is that the
majority of code written is never sold. I have been
programming for money for nearly 15 years and not a
single line of code I have ever written has ever been
included in any software that was ever sold.
Five years at the county gov't, never sold a bit of SW.
Five years at a blood testing lab, never sold a bit of SW.
Two years at KCPL, never sold a bit of SW.
Two years at Sprint, never sold a bit of SW.
Hal
Bradley Miller [bradmiller at dslonramp.com] wrote:
>
> NIH (not invented here) syndrome . . . or the "can't buy it,
> it must not be good". There is just one thing that is still
> in the back of my mind about open source, at least GPL'ed
> things . . .how *do* you sell it and market it? If I take
> Bill's widget maker and modify his code to sell it, I have
> to also give it back to Bill and give it out for everyone to
> use. Why buy my version of a widget maker if you can grab
> the GPL'ed version and go for it . . . ?
>
>
> I'm very much pro-open source programming . . . but there are
> still those little things that make you go "hmm ? ? ?".
> Open source is running on the model of "everyone will
> contribute because it's the right thing to do" without looking
> at the "everyone won't always work for free" things.
>
> -- Bradley Miller
>
> At 12:00 PM 7/13/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >Just a discussion ;), but have you been noticing (like I
> >have) how reluctant corporations are to use open source -
> >even though they are willing to buy any crap software at
> >any price as long as it is "owned" by a company so that
> >someone is liable. For example at my workplace, linux
> >is not used, not allowed. In my earlier workplace, same
> >story (we're talking the biggest phone companies in the
> >country). Will this sideline open source to academia
> >and maybe kill it off eventually?
> >thanks,
> >Anil Philip
> >--------------------------------------------------
> >disclaimer: my opinions are my own and do not reflect ....
No kidding! :-)
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