Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM]

Timothy Miller (miller@techsource.com)
Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:18:45 -0400


It's funny -- all of this political talk going on about the effect of
Open Source on commercial software. Well, for some people, writing open
source software may have political motivations, but for an even greater
number of people, writing open source software is something they do
purely for personal enjoyment. In terms of motivation, this is no
different from wood working or launching pumpkins.

The great thing about the open source community that exists is that
there is a huge body of work out there that you can borrow from in order
to make getting your enjoyment easier.

How many of you kernel developers out there hate coding but work on the
Linux kernel just for the sake of beating Microsoft?

For many of us, this is just a hobby. Yeah, it's awesome that other
people can benefit from it and use it commercially, but it's just
something we do for fun.

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