This is what I never understood about the Linux crowd. What part of FREE do they not get? Why should any for-fee company pay to keep a competitor going? Why should the pay to sustain an OS that a base of a software companies users will demand they support (for Free).
I give them a ton of credit for getting these guys to pony anything to them.
Seems like there’s a hot new programming language coming out every quarter now. I can’t keep up with them all, like a dinosaur sinking in a tar pit.
Seems like there’s a hot new programming language coming out every quarter now. I can’t keep up with them all, like a dinosaur sinking in a tar pit.
But rest assured some H1B has 5 years experience in it as soon as it comes out.
“This is what I never understood about the Linux crowd. What part of FREE do they not get? Why should any for-fee company pay to keep a competitor going? Why should the pay to sustain an OS that a base of a software companies users will demand they support (for Free).”
I’m not sure what exactly you’re saying here, but Linux is one example where companies are making money, and paid employees are doing a lot of the coding these days. Red Hat and Ubuntu are probably the two best examples.
Five years ago Red Hat (RHT) was trading around $30 a share, as of today it’s at $78.
The companies profiting from open source are starting to fund some of the less well supported areas these days.