From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 17:14:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130907151434.GA12603@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EAD2EF78-9FEC-498D-9A2E-A5579BF38446@9srv.net>
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 10:58:08AM -0400, Anthony Sorace wrote:
>
> Someone tell me how to get money for working on nix and this thread
> becomes useful.
>
I guess that the answer is: provide your own.
This is the GPL plague: saying to developers that as long as they
provide gratis something _they_ owes something to whom take it.
(Communism: give me your watch and, in fair exchange, I will tell you
what time it is.)
It's fortunate that it is still possible to make closed source
development, because, if it was not the case, I would have ceased
totally to write code---and, if I still publish open source, this is
because _I_ owe something to the developers who wrote code that _I_ use
(I owe to the Bell Labs for Unix and Plan9; to BSD CSRG; to D.E.K.; to
the original CERL GRASS developers etc.; counting, this is not a lot of
people...).
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
http://www.kergis.com/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-07 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-05 22:13 Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-09-05 22:35 ` erik quanstrom
2013-09-06 8:49 ` Richard Miller
2013-09-06 9:52 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-09-06 10:24 ` hiro
2013-09-05 22:36 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-09-05 23:07 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-09-06 8:27 ` Steve Simon
2013-09-06 22:59 ` BurnZeZ
2013-09-06 23:00 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2013-09-07 19:15 ` Christopher Nielsen
2013-09-06 23:10 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-09-06 23:35 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-09-06 23:42 ` Nemo
2013-09-07 2:49 ` erik quanstrom
2013-09-07 4:06 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2013-09-07 4:36 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 6:24 ` pmarin
2013-09-07 13:21 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-09-07 13:28 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 13:33 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-09-07 13:41 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 13:56 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-09-07 14:32 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 14:52 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2013-09-07 16:28 ` erik quanstrom
2013-09-07 17:01 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2013-09-07 17:48 ` Gorka Guardiola
2013-09-07 20:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-09-07 23:47 ` Matthew Veety
2013-09-08 0:19 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-09-08 7:00 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 14:58 ` Anthony Sorace
2013-09-07 15:05 ` Bruce Ellis
2013-09-07 15:14 ` tlaronde [this message]
2013-09-07 15:46 ` lucio
2013-09-07 16:06 ` tlaronde
2013-09-07 16:40 ` lucio
2013-09-07 16:56 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2013-09-07 17:45 ` lucio
2013-09-07 17:50 ` lucio
2013-09-07 16:57 ` tlaronde
2013-09-07 16:35 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2013-09-06 23:48 Terry Wendt
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