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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: divvie who wrote (55095)4/7/1999 10:14:00 PM
From: BGR  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 132070
 
divvie,

I do agree that Linux could very well become the dominant enterprise O/S. My point is that if all enterprise s/w is expected to be free, that's an unstable situation. Who is going to employ s/w engineers, then? Even poets get royalties.

I find it hard to understand how some would put such an expectation on the s/w development community's shoulder, that they should not demand an compensation for their labour.

-BGR.


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