If you so believed that everything should be open then why not put the same
argument to MOTM. Why shouldn't the gerber files, schematics and bill of
materials be free and Paul just make money on
support/software/customization/soldering. It's rediculous that people think
that software engineers should make their money off of hardware and support,
yet nobody thinks hardware engineers should make their money off of
software.
One of the things you said actually contradicts itself. You want software
to be free so you can customize it, yet you say he should give away software
and charge for customizations. Doesn't giving away the source impair his
ability to charge for customizations?
>From: jfm3 <jfm3@...>
>To: Adam Schabtach <adam@...>
>CC: motm@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RE: [motm] Re: Firmware/source code
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:52:55 -0500
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>Is this a troll?
>
>This argument has been had about 1000000 times elsewhere on the
>internet. You make money by giving away the software but selling
>support, hosting, hardware, and customization.
>
>Can we not have this argument again, here? Please? Pretty please? With
>sugar on top? Please? No, really, I'm begging.
>
>On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 10:36 -0700, Adam Schabtach wrote:
> > > It's just a pity that something as inherently malleable as
> > > software needs to be locked down.
> >
> > It's also a pity that I can't pay the mortgage, buy groceries, pay the
> > utility bills, etc. by giving away the software I write.
>
>
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