Comments on: Will the Financial Crisis Boost Open Source? http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/ Channel News, Reseller News and Channel Partner Programs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: regexgreg http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-95774 regexgreg Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:10:00 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/#comment-95774 FOSS doent mean you dont get paid... it just means the software is free... many companies sponsor the development of these projects including the likes of Redhat, and very often donate massive portions of code at their own expense.. its a two-way street.. they benefit, the users benefit. In 2001 when IT BOOM crashed, how many big paid for closed companies closed? People lost jobs by the thousands... Even worse alot of software was lost as well due to their closed source nature. Most developers of FOSS aren't in it for the money... they do it for the love of it... sometimes you just do something to see if you can do it... and receive a great reward by users loving what you've done... Intellectual Property is bullshit.. nothing anybody ever comes up with is an idea completely of their own, you think of something new because you have been tought or inspired by so many others... any for of ownership is just plain greed fullstop. FOSS doent mean you dont get paid… it just means the software is free… many companies sponsor the development of these projects including the likes of Redhat, and very often donate massive portions of code at their own expense.. its a two-way street.. they benefit, the users benefit. In 2001 when IT BOOM crashed, how many big paid for closed companies closed? People lost jobs by the thousands… Even worse alot of software was lost as well due to their closed source nature. Most developers of FOSS aren’t in it for the money… they do it for the love of it… sometimes you just do something to see if you can do it… and receive a great reward by users loving what you’ve done…

Intellectual Property is bullshit.. nothing anybody ever comes up with is an idea completely of their own, you think of something new because you have been tought or inspired by so many others… any for of ownership is just plain greed fullstop.

]]> By: I dont know http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-95615 I dont know Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:22:15 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/#comment-95615 just think about thousands of jobs being wasted…by the open source community and it’s communist philosophy? HAHA ... so the communists created this deep shitty crisis? I don't think so AFAIK jobs are now being lost as a consequence of extreme capitalism (you remember these guys from the banks flying with their private jets for their bail-out so they good at least ensure their own bonuses) I just went to Las Vegas and saw a lot of people gambling. Well gambling is an addiction and I think some people who are rich and watch their bank account growing, sometimes are addicted as well. For these people it doesn't matter what happens to the rest of the world (just like the gambler-addicted) as long as this number is going up. I sense this feeling myself a bit as well .... I feel good/rich when I see my bank account is going from €1000 to €4500 (yes I got a bonus as well). But I try to remember that it's just a number, next month this number will go down again because stuff has to get paid. But seeing your bank account going up from €4.000.000.000 to €4.500.000.000 in a year is in my opinion sick. It should feel like a third world country producing oil with a few rich families which own like 99% of the countries money. This greed should stop: imagine you own a bakery and thus bake breads for lets say $2 a peace. The profit on one bread is $1. In that case you should bake 500.000.000 breads. baking 500 breads a day, makes 1.000.000 days, makes 2793 years of baking bread. This is insane and IMO criminal. just think about thousands of jobs being wasted…by the open source community and it’s communist philosophy?

HAHA … so the communists created this deep shitty crisis? I don’t think so AFAIK jobs are now being lost as a consequence of extreme capitalism (you remember these guys from the banks flying with their private jets for their bail-out so they good at least ensure their own bonuses)

I just went to Las Vegas and saw a lot of people gambling. Well gambling is an addiction and I think some people who are rich and watch their bank account growing, sometimes are addicted as well. For these people it doesn’t matter what happens to the rest of the world (just like the gambler-addicted) as long as this number is going up. I sense this feeling myself a bit as well …. I feel good/rich when I see my bank account is going from €1000 to €4500 (yes I got a bonus as well). But I try to remember that it’s just a number, next month this number will go down again because stuff has to get paid. But seeing your bank account going up from €4.000.000.000 to €4.500.000.000 in a year is in my opinion sick. It should feel like a third world country producing oil with a few rich families which own like 99% of the countries money. This greed should stop: imagine you own a bakery and thus bake breads for lets say $2 a peace. The profit on one bread is $1. In that case you should bake 500.000.000 breads. baking 500 breads a day, makes 1.000.000 days, makes 2793 years of baking bread. This is insane and IMO criminal.

]]> By: ion http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-92484 ion Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:20:02 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/#comment-92484 red hat is making money out of "free" stuff people. red hat is making money out of “free” stuff people.

]]> By: ion http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-92483 ion Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:19:24 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/#comment-92483 communists. are happy now? long live red-linux. heh communists. are happy now? long live red-linux. heh

]]> By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-90011 The VAR Guy Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:42:45 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/#comment-90011 Ion: Um, Red Hat is "profitable" -- very profitable. Ion: Um, Red Hat is “profitable” — very profitable.

]]> By: ion http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-89976 ion Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:25:36 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/#comment-89976 how the heck will "free" software developers survive, with no income in this financial crisis? just think about thousands of jobs being wasted...by the open source community and it's communist philosophy? how the heck will “free” software developers survive, with no income in this financial crisis? just think about thousands of jobs being wasted…by the open source community and it’s communist philosophy?

]]> By: Prometheus http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/comment-page-1/#comment-80765 Prometheus Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:08:22 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/30/will-the-financial-crisis-boost-open-source/#comment-80765 Dead right. The bottleneck limiting even more open source growth is education. There are still far too many folk around (professionals, engineers as well as C-level) who labour under the "open source is by amateurs" fallacy. But heck Rome wasn't built in a day. Dead right. The bottleneck limiting even more open source growth is education. There are still far too many folk around (professionals, engineers as well as C-level) who labour under the “open source is by amateurs” fallacy. But heck Rome wasn’t built in a day.

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