On Saturday 19 November 2005 03:16, Paul M Foster wrote:
> The problem is that people in the Open Source movement aren't doing it
> for profit. They're doing it to advance the art. Or improve mankind. Or
> whatever their particular higher purpose is. (Or they just like to hack
> ;-) It's generally a labor of love, like all good science.
It can be a great fascilitator. That's how I use OSS. With it I can solve
customer problems and charge for my time and effort. But you are right in
that the code is usually the motivation for people to get involved. I know
that's what I wanted to do when I started out. Write something and have
people use it.
Programming can be an art form. And as such you are an artist and you code to
create a good effect on the environment. If you can then figure out a way to
live off it ... Wow! Life is great!
> It's also worth noting that the general level of morality and ethics in
> society has declined, exacerbating this whole problem. In a more moral
> society, record companies wouldn't charge extortionate rates for CDs,
> and no one would think of depriving an artist or company of profit by
> pirating a CD.
Yes, and I think that's where our grandfathers went wrong. They did predicted
so many things and built a great constitution. But I feel they did not
realize the moral decline that happend early 1900 with the problem Field
Marchall Otto von Bismark faced. But that's a different story.
Thing about politics, it's defined as things related to people. And if we
don't care about people we end up giving politics a bad name the only ones
left (polititians) don't really have our best at heart. So get involved in
some way. Dare to care!
Yes, it's definitely taking a political turn. : ) Not that the Sony story was
not political in the first place...
--Steve Szmidt
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