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[jdow]

From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com>

" It's a license.  And you are a troll."

That's your call to make. I am simply stating why *I* will not
develop open source software unless somebody somewhere pays the
full freight for my work time.

"I get compensated for all my
OpenSource software.  I get compensated in all this other OpenSource
software that enables me to do my job and enables all of our engineers
to be more productive producing what we do market (and we are highly
profitable).  Just because you are clueless and think we all are just
doing this for our ego's is not my problem, it's yours.  Others are
being compensated very very nicely and RedHat and others are very
profitable.  Looks like you have a personal problem to me.  In a world
without OpenSource software, you wouldn't have the markets that exist
out there now, to develop for."

Does your COMPANY get compensated for your Open Source software?
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. The corollary is "SAP",
Somebody Always Pays. In your case you are willing to work for
someone else. I spent a lot of years doing that and the pressures
twice came close to killing me, once from pneumonia and once from
simply burning out so bad even cooking my own dinner was an intolerable
burden. One thing I learned VERY well over the years is that corporate
loyalty is a one way street. These days if I work I get paid for each
hour worked as a consultant, a mercenary. It's cut-throat. It is FAR
more honest than I've ever been dealt with before. It is simply
impossible for ME to work on GPLed environments. The FreeBSD situation
looks far better until I realize I am back into the GPL jungle as
soon as I want to make a project that features a GUI. So I develop
in an environment somewhat less "uncertain" that allows me to develop
commercial solutions for what I do. <Shrug> What boggles me are people
who demand features and up to the second documentation from free Open
Source software developers. It ain't gonna happen.

(I need to add that the decision is pretty much moot since I develop
a lot of my software for video cards that are not supported on Linux
and probably never will be if someone waits for Matrox to deliver it.
And I can't see anybody doing it freebie style. Those are COMPLEX
monsters. Look up the DigiSuite family of video cards.)

{^_^}   Joanne