[dba-Tech] Why is there so many OSS projects?

Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com
Thu Aug 22 11:38:09 CDT 2013


Amen!
TNF

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
231-322-2787

On 8/22/2013 6:17 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I can think of four reasons:
>
> 1. it is so difficult to find the funding for any given project;
> 2. if one has the passion for programming, then funding and subsequent
> corporatization of the concept is way too much pain in the ass;
> 3. Jjust because I had the idea doesn't mean that I have the best
> implementation;
> 4. It's social networking on an intelligent plane, as opposed to the nude
> sex-vids so popular among those with no other claim to fame.
>
> My partner Peter Brawley and I are both working on separate apps, which we
> will both place in the OSS community as soon as they are ready for public
> consumption.
>
> This could be because we are both now senior citizens and thus receiving
> pensions, and therefore have enough to subsist, and consequently, money is
> no longer a goal. Which is not to say that I am averse to money, but merely
> that it is no longer a significant motive. At the moment I'm doing some
> part-time mentoring for a client in San Francisco, and I bill him for about
> 1 hour in 8, because a large part of the task involves research, so that
> part is on my dime not his. I'm doing it because it's intellectually
> interesting. The occasional check is nice, and I invest it in toys such as
> my spanky new laptop, but it is certainly not the goal. As the
> aforementioned Peter is fond of saying, "The best defense against
> Alzheimer's is to Keep Thinking." The virtue of being old enough to collect
> a pension is the freedom to choose which projects are worth your time. In
> days of yore, we used to have an acronym in our company: YAFOES (yet
> another f**king Order Entry System). Been there, done that. Now I'm on to
> more significant problems, almost none of which pay money. And guess what?
> I don't care. I can't afford fancy vacations in sunny climes but that too
> is OK.
>
> Arthur
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> One of these strange questions... It sure can not be the money? So why is
>> there any Open Source projects at all...no money no work may seem logical
>> to many but according to the following article this is not the case. Humans
>> are strange animals to say the least and programmers are probably the
>> strangest humans. ;-)
>>
>>
>> http://readwrite.com/2013/08/14/mobile-developers-its-not-about-the-money#awesm=~of1TClo7jXYlzl
>>
>> Jim
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