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From: "Jeff Susanj" <jeffrey.l.susanj@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: Linux as terminal emulator.
Message-ID: <G9JKop.6C6@news.boeing.com>
Organization: The Boeing Company
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 23:17:13 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
"Frank da Cruz" <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote in message
news:97bck4$809$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu...
> ...Now free software is
> developed by:
>
> . Students who will soon get real jobs.
> . People stealing time from their real jobs.
> . A very few individuals who are actually paid to do it.
> . Companies that hope it will destroy their competition.
> . Companies that believe it will somehow turn a profit.
>
> This is all fine with me -- everybody should do what they please if it
> doesn't hurt anyone else. But it's not exactly a sound and stable system.
> Unpaid developers have little incentive to care about what their users
want.
> And, with very few exceptions, it does not provide a career path except in
> the sense that if you become famous for some free creation, then you can
get
> a high-paying job at an investment bank and disappear from the scene.
>
Paid developers have little incentive to care about users since they only do
what the marketing types say. I would be much more likely to care about
users if I was the one talking to the users and deciding what should be
included in the next release. Being a no-name software gerbil in a maze of
cubicles does not engender pride in the product. The best software is
produced by people who are passionate about their product, not necessarily
those who are paid big bucks.
Jeff S.