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To: E. Charters who wrote (672)	12/2/1998 8:03:00 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (1) of 2615

A programmer's cooperative will never work. There would never be an agreed-on method for distribution of the funds. How can you judge who deserves how much? Does the programmer who spent a week hunting down a nasty buglet that could be fixed by changing one line of code deserve less than the prolific (yet low quality) programmer? Can you distribute according to time spent even though some peoples time is obviously more valuable than others? How do you verify productive time spent? Do you separate it by program and allow the users to vote how much goes to each program? This prevents the bazaar type of development and discourages would-be-contributors to other poeples projects. It discourages people from taking up 'low-key' projects that are unsexy yet necessary. The current open source paradigm of interest, talent, and available time being the deciding factor of what gets done seems to work very well. Your theory that available time and interest will decrease becuase there is not a financial incentive does not hold water. >> Anyway is RedHat truly open source? I don't think so. RPM's are binaries. << Yes, Redhat is open source (truly). RPM's are binaries for convenience only. The source to build them is also distributed free of charge and under a license that allows unrestricted modification and distribution. The RPM program is distributed by Debian because it is open source (both the format and the program to manipulate .rpm's) >> Is Sendmail? << Yes. >> Ghostscript << Ghostscript is. Ghostscript-aladdin is not. >> etc... << I fail to see the point. Of course non-opensource programs do exist. Many are even distributed with popular GNU/Linux distributions. This is because open source allows you to distribute it with other non-opensource programs, and allows you to charge money for distributing it.

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