Re: Where is the profit?
- From: Rob Kennedy <me3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:30:09 -0500
John wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 15:50:46 +0200, "didi" <didi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:If I create a close source application then yes the application it will never be good as be open source.
I think most OS code and applications are complete crap.
Oh, definitely. The JCL? Crap. Mozilla? Crap. Apache? Crap. Inno Setup? Crap. The Linux kernel? Crap. GCC? Crap. Virtual Tree View? Crap. Perl? Crap. PostgresQL? Crap. Indy? Crap.
Delphi uses code from some of those projects. It's crap, too.
Let's face it. People with talent usually go work in paid industry jobs.
How do you know that?
Which leaves the OS community with the less talented coders or in the worst case the talentless wanabee coders.
You seem to be saying that the set of coders in the paid industry jobs does not intersect with the set of coders who make up the open-source community. I don't see that as necessarily true. I have contributed to open-source projects; where does that leave me?
There are some good coders out there though, but they suffer from OS problem number two, which is the complete lack of organisation and standardisation. And without clear direction they won't get anywhere.
The projects I listed above seem to have pretty clear direction.
There is nothing to guarantee that non-open-source software is organized, either.
But nothing is perfect, also if I decide to go opensource then my app will have a lot of code programmed by unknown programmers and I lose control on it.
Basically if you are talented and create something really good, someone else who might be a complete idiot can use your OS code and add his idiot stuff to it and ruin your product.
It would certainly ruin his own copy of your product. Whether it managed to ruin others' would depend on whether the idiot was able to distribute his copy very widely. You obviously wouldn't be including those poor changes in the version of the program you distribute yourself.
That explanation works both ways: If you are not as talented as you thought and create something only so-so, someone else who might be a complete genius can use your closed-source program but not add his brilliant stuff to if and improve your product.
Also I must share my app with other sellers... The responsability will drop down and buyers need one who is responsable, they pay for that!.
The whole idea behind it, is that ideas and code should be free for everyone to use. So anything you create can be (re) used by someone else. And everybody is happy and makes an equal amount of money from it. Which might be true in a completely naive utopian world, but as everybody who has ever functioned in the real world knows that's not how it works.
I don't think that open-source software has ever been about preventing people from making money or from equalizing the amounts of money everyone may make.
Well, what can i say. Giving away your code and ideas won't make you rich. And it also degrades the software industry in general.
What makes you say that? (The second part, that is; I agree with the first part.)
-- Rob .
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