Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 19 November 2007 08:50 : \____
>
>> Nicolas Travenko <travenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>> Nicolas Travenko wrote:
>>>>> "ed" <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>> XMMS 1.2.11 Released
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> | 1211 days ago we released 1.2.10, so what better day to release
>>>>>>> 1.2.11?
>>>>>>> | Download source
>>>>>>> `----
>>>>>> I have to wonder if they deliberately left it for this long so the
>>>>>> numbers would align.
>>>>>
>>>>> No. The developers simply spent the past 4 years earning a living
>>>>> writing
>>>>> proprietary closed code so they could put food on the table.
>>>>>
>>>>> Total ever earned from XMMS = $0.00
>>>>
>>>> Over the last four years, I've had no need to use anything other than
>>>> XMMS. I'm sure if the author wanted to make money from it they would
>>>> have not released it as open source. It's a bit of a stupid argument to
>>>> imply that the author wanted to make money from it directly.
>>>>
>>>> How do you know that the author did not make money indirectly? It may
>>>> have earned him a better position in the company where he works as it
>>>> shows quite a good commitment to a worthy cause.
>>>
>>> Indirectly perhaps he did. But it wasn't XMMS that made him the money. It
>>> was his *real* job that pays the bills.
>>>
>>
>> How do you know that his real job isn't to write xmms? There are
>> thousands of people being employed to write OSS.
>>
>> I know of about 10,000 in one major tier one telco alone - this would be
>> an Asian Telco. Here's one example:
>>
>> http://www.docomolabs-usa.com/indexFla.html
>>
>> Your "free software doesn't make money" argument is so 1990s, just like
>> your employer. Why don't you run along and post in a suitable group?
>
> You're replying to Scott Douglas by the way (just in case you were not aware).
>
I suspected as much... I suspect that the only people that actually
post anti-charter material here are paid to do so. I can't see why
anyone would bother otherwise.
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