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If I want to be able to eat, drive a car, and buy other people's software, I need to get someone in exchange for my skills. I only have a finite number of hours in my day, and a finite amount of resources. You don't have to worry about trying to locate someone who's willing to give you potatoes in exchange for your ability to configure sendmail. It's just like the barter system, but a lot easier because currency is universally accepted. Yes, if you're doing business, this might not work then again, if your business isn't selling software, it very well might. Once that happens, it becomes even more personally useful. People usually write stuff and release it because it was useful to them, and it might be useful to others, so they can benefit from the above returns.
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Use your economics to translate that into dollars how much would a staff of 100 developers cost to employ and keep happy? More than most people would ever make selling their code to anyone. The second is more valuable than money you have the possibility of possibly hundreds or thousands of developers looking at your code, offering patches and extensions to it.
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However, that aside, because you seem to be talking about "real" Free Software, you're overlooking the two most obvious and tangible returns that we get from developing it: recognition, and the time of other developers.
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I don't see the ability to download the source, no less under any sort of nonrestrictive license. This doesn't even appear to be "Free Software" in the way most of us mean. The reason why we all don't have to grow our own food, knit our own sweaters, or write our own code is because we've worked out a neat little system of exchange called "currency".Īnd it's probably because you run your own business and studied economics that you're blinded to other nonstandard possibilities. In the real world, things cost producers both time and money to make. You've all be spoiled by the easy access to pirated software, music and movies. Maybe it's because I run my own business or maybe it's because I studied economics in school, but I tend to look at things a bit different than most other Slashdotters. It's really not a difficult concept to understand, but if you want the Cliff's Notes version of my point: "Nothing in life is free." If you want to see what happens with a society tries to avoid the basic laws of economics go vacation in North Korea (or to a lesser extent, Cuba). Elsewise I can't afford to give others something in return for their product/service. The reason why we all don't have to grow our own food, knit our own sweaters, or write our own code is because we've worked out a neat little system of exchange called "currency".
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Yeah, a pretty accepted software business model is:ġ) Help foster a community of developers to create software that people wantĢ) Connect potential buyers to that product and help them use it Good to see that more companies are trying to keep their software free, but perhaps the Slashdot crowd could offer advice on a better business model than spam and merchandising?