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#! rnews 2270 bsd Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4b0th4$1u8@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <4ao7hn$rf8@park.uvsc.edu> <4apvl8$pgs@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <4atpt3$cqi@park.uvsc.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 11:05:08 GMT Lines: 31 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31373 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:11153 In article <4atpt3$cqi@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > >GPL suggests that everyone should become contract programmers >or product support people if they want to be paid for doing >programming. Software itself shouldn't be sold above and >beyond a reproduction fee. The economics of such a situation >dictate that the company that charges the least will get the >money. The company with the smallest R&D budget. > In fact, it is my position that GPL would force funded efforts to be support only. This would have the effect similar to taking the population of architects and change them into janitors. I guess that it is time to get re-educated into another type of profession -- like law!!! PLEASE NOTE THE WORD "SIMILAR" ABOVE, NOT ABSOLUTELY THE SAME, so discounting my concept on terminology is quite bogus!!!! Anyone who is a software developer and has done *real* customer support knows this. I guess that is the reason that some of the GPL people quote ridiculous consulting rates. I can understand $150/Hr or so on Wall Street (with 7/24 availability requirements and living on/near Manhattan) -- but for fixing GNU software??? I guess they just don't like to support their own stuff :-). (I mean REAL customer support with $150Million of business at stake -- and I HAVE been in that position!!! -- not just fixing things at my own leasurely (retirement or sabattical) rate.) John dyson@freebsd.org