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On Monday 11 October 2004 10:23 am, Jon Lawrence wrote: I agree with everything else, except this:
Writing code costs money - there's no doubt about this.
Writing code does not cost any money. SUPPORTING code costs bucket loads of money. There is no reason why code should cost money to create or copy. No-one has paid a penny for any of the code I've ever written. 1. Windows programmers often quote the price of their compiler - Duh! use a free compiler! (and don't use Windows). 2. Some programmers are paid to work full time on code - this is similar to some personalities who are paid to make speeches. It does NOT mean that anyone making an after dinner speech can expect to get paid! The logic here is simple: All ripe lemons are yellow therefore everything yellow is a ripe lemon. Ooops. 3. Just because you do pay for an after dinner speaker, does NOT mean the content/quality of the speech will be higher than if you asked your Dad. 4. If you can't find a sponsor, do NOT presume that you must be paid to generate code. Meet your financial needs through other routes, like most free software programmers. 5. On GNU/Linux, you paid nothing to obtain and use the software that is editing - emacs / KDE etc - or compiling your code - gcc - so why should you be paid for what you produce using a free software tool? Fine if you can be paid, but you cannot PRESUME that payment will be made.
But if you intend a decent size user base, then the cost of writing the software pales in to insignificance with the cost of supporting that software.
True, anything compared with zero is infinite.
Jon
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