On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 22:33, paul webb wrote:
> but has the free software movement buggered things up
> for artists who used be able to make some small income
> doing shareware stuff...
>
> people expect stuff for free to much now!!
>
> its made the issue so black and white....
> either big money corps... or free software open source
interesting point.
one thing to say, free software != free as in beer
there are (and always have been) tons of closed source zero cost
programs around.
the business of writing programs has become more of a service industry
these days it seems to me. I think this is a good thing.
cheers,
dave
Received on Thu Oct 06 2005 - 22:38:42 BST