Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 19:39:04 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>, Jack Rusher <jar@integratus.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Subject: Re: Design a journalled file system Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0102271933521.5502-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010227143122.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > The GPL makes a lot of business sense: > 4. You can't sell any improvements you make (since anyone will > be able to just download them, so why would they bother paying > for it), so all your programmers become deadweight as they > are not earning any income. > Solution? Fire all the deadwood (i.e. the non-incoome > generating programmers.) > > Yeah, this is a business model that I as a programmer _really_ > want to promote because, hey, food will just magically appear > on my table because people will provide it for me out of the > goodness of their hearts in appreciation for my code. I haven't seen this happen in practice. I can really only see this occur in a situation when the software is finished, in the sense that it is perfect and doesn't need any further improvements (yeah right). As a programmer of the Linux kernel (GPL license) I am getting about 2 to 3 job offers a week, even though most people know they don't need to bother because I'm very happy here; despite the fact that my code will be available to them anyway. The reason? They want to see different kinds of improvements in the code, they want the code customised for whatever it is they are doing, etc... Your argument is a good one and it would be persuasive if I saw it happen in practice ... but I don't. regards, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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