On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:35 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 15:54 -0700, jdow wrote: > > Note that there is nothing WRONG with it being a hobby or with > > hobbies in general. But to take it more seriously than you might > > take a model railroad or a hand made remote controlled B-52 model > > with real jet engines and all is silly. > > There are different computer systems around, some more geared towards > only being profitable towards larger corporations, others not. If you > want to make money from a product, you have to be sensible about which > product you work with. This is no different than any other industry. > > You can't demand that you must be able to make money from something just > because you want to. Heck, I can learn how to make soap, but I couldn't > possibly compete with Lux or Palmolive, on a backyard creator scale. > > -- > (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. No, but if I put serveral man months into producing a new software product and I am not singularly wealthy I might want to feed my family and get soem money back for selling my output . A GPL licence does not allow me to od that. Would we have linux kernels if there wasn't a company willing to pay Linux kernel developers to do that job without demanding that revenue be realized from their work. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
