Aaron Konstam: >>> 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. Tim: >> Would we have them if those who did so didn't get something back in >> return for their efforts? I doubt it. But we do have them, and they do >> get back what they want for their efforts, else they wouldn't do it. >> >> Perhaps you want to rethink about what you, or someone else thinking the >> same thing, hopes to get out of it. With any enterprise you have to fit >> into the model that surrounds it. You can't have everything your way. Aaron Konstam: > I am always willing to learn new things. Are you saying the Linus and > all the Red Hat employed developers are not being paid to do their > development. You seem to have missed what the last two sentences mean. There's a difference between, I demand to be able to make money from someone else's work, and I can work out a way to earn money while being a part of the model. The model has been created, you have the choice of fitting in, or making a new one. Other's manage to do it to their own satisfaction. Do those kernel developers really "demand" money from someone, or have they found a way be a part of the game? I doubt the first notion. The GPL, and its ilk, would seem to be successfully anti-greed. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
