Earn through GPL (Was:Re: [Ilugc] We Don't Need ...)
- From: ee01b098@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ayan Chakrabarti)
- Date: Sat Jul 2 23:52:42 2005
Hi,
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Anand Saha wrote:
(long long mail ...)
Hi Ayan,
There are many ways of earning a living by writing softwares. I am
talking about a particular way of earning in which:
- I* write a software
- I release it under GPL
- I am owner of the code
- I want to earn money based on this s/w (not by donations)
- and my core product in not the h/w on which this s/w runs
but the s/w itself
and the point I want to make is -
the GPLed s/w 'alone' would not bring you any money. You need to have
True. But my point is, that one does not need such a route to produce good
software. As in, it is possible to have a world, where only free software
exists - motivated by companies who earn their profits from the hardware
on which the software runs or which it interfaces to, or as you said, from
support/writing manuals,etc.
And, such companies (hardware or support) can employ programmers who then
can, if they so choose, feed their families and avoid a life of privation.
In GNU-centric world, it may not be possible for you to just write a
program and start earning money off it directly. But this does not portend
the end of programming and programmers, or of quality software. And, it
ensures a world where users have "real freedom" with the software they
buy, and open sharing of code means a lot less man-hours wasted on
recoding the same thing in multiple closed-source projects.
--Ayan
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