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by James Robertson.
Original Post: A Contrarian view on Open Source
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However, I start to wonder where your benefit is. You are 13 out of principle 13 not making any money out of this, because it is open-source and you and your buddies insist that it must be absolutely free. So you are putting all of that time and energy into this project for what? Fame? To found a career? Come on.
If someone installs your work from disc 3 of some Linux distro, they couldn 19t care less who you are. The whole fame thing you are telling me only works amongst geeks. The good looking, intelligent girl over there at the bar that you 19d really like to talk to doesn 19t care much whether you are famous amongst a group of geeks and neither does she even remotely fathom why you 19d be famous for that stuff in the first place. I mean 13 get real here.
Read the whole thing - and ask yourself whether or not there's a clear benefit to you in open source. I'm not as down on it as Clemens is - heck, BottomFeeder is open source. Then again, I'm not directly trying to make money from Bf either - it's a public demonstration for Smalltalk - i.e., marketing. Anyway, it's an interesting read.
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