« Two snapshots from NYC | Main | Motorola SLVR L7: a flat, feature-packaged cell phone »
June 13, 2006
Charging money for free&open source software
Free (liberty) software can't always be free (beer) - because someone needs to work to develop it.
Kevin Walzer, who kicked off Aquamacs development more than a year ago has now begun charging a small sum for the download of his free and open source package manager. While such software follows the "free software" ideology, it is clear that developers need to earn a living somehow - a point which Stallman's philosophy fails to address (I remember him arguing that we're all employed by universities, when he was over at MLE).
The question is now: will people pay up?
Posted by dr at June 13, 2006 9:19 AM
Trackback Pings
Please use the following TrackBack URL:
http://www.davids-world.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/139
Comments
how to down load the application of digital audio player my L7 motorola phone
Posted by: gurubaran at October 19, 2008 9:17 AM