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- From: mib@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software
- Message-ID: <MIB.93Jan11164108@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 00:41:08 GMT
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- In-reply-to: sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi's message of 11 Jan 93 16:26:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.162636.9836@nntp.hut.fi> sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi (Sakari Aaltonen) writes:
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- Ahem. What is the incentive for FSF/Cygnus people to write GPL'd software?
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- Do they get paid? Or do they do it out of the goodness of their hearts
- while being supported by their parents, say?
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- The FSF and Cygnus support are totally different organizations.
- Please don't confuse them. The FSF staff programmers are paid by the
- FSF at a rate considerably lower than industry standard. We accept
- lower salaries for many reasons, among them are the sense that we are
- doing good for society, the opportunity to do more interesting work,
- the more pleasant work environment/culture, etc. The FSF also gets
- donations from many people for many reasons. You'd have to ask
- individuals for their individual reasons.
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- Cygnus sells support contracts, and spends some of that money helping
- to develop free software. They believe (probably rightly) that the
- better the free software is, the more support contracts they will get.
- In addition, they now write some free software for contract, like the
- ports to Solaris.
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