From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 17:14:34 +0200 From: tlaronde@polynum.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20130907151434.GA12603@polynum.com> References: <20130905230735.Horde.uX0zjY3pqclxqj9wO4Uw-Q1@ssl.eumx.net> <1a806fac73b7f5d77492e855f816fca4@quintile.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Closed nix development is an insult Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7c24a024-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C