Re: Kiss and say goodbye to Microsoft!!
From: Thomas F. Divine (pcausa@hotmail.com)Date: 02/17/02
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From: "Thomas F. Divine" <pcausa@hotmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 09:17:01 -0500
"Robert Kane" <rkane4@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Anyway, there is a market for Linux and yes believe it or not one can make
> money on Free software. Sys admins make money administrating M$ server
> don't they? And programmers make money developing web sites and software
> using , yes you guessed it, M$ VB, C, InterDev etc. etc.. The difference
is
> that someone had to pay for the Programmign language software the
programmer
> used. Oh yeah that's right, if your the custom programmer you bought it.
> That is unless you somehow got the company you did the custom programming
> for to buy it. Hmmm.... seems to me that if I were a programmer and had to
> buy my own software, I'd push Linux and GNU since I wouldn't have to spend
a
> dime on the software, and for that matter neither would the companies I
> would program for and thus my profit margin increases and the company pays
> less money for the program. Makes perfect sense to me. I love how all
you
> dummies out there can;t understand why one can not profit from software or
> OS just because it has a price tag or $0.00 on it. Believe me people -
> there are bunches of those who are making money on Linux, maybe just not
as
> much as old Billie G.
>
Robert,
Seriously.
I'm a software developer.
I'm not a website designer. (And I think the market is flooded with that
specialty anyway).
I'm not a server farm administrator. (Anyway, that field has big problems
too...).
I'm not a teacher or author. (I would guess that field is saturated as
well).
I'm a software developer.
I have several copies of Linux as well as books about same. They're cheap,
so I got them. Never opened them, though, because I'd rather read Clive
Cussler if I have spare time.
Seriously.
I am a software developer. I've been a Software developer for a long time.
(Read DEC PDP-8)
What financial (feed my family ) motivation is there to take my time to get
involved in Linux?
I don't care how great Linux is. I don't care how neat it is to look at OS
source code. (Actually, I do use BSD Unix OS source as a resource sometimes.
My taxes paid for it, I can use it). I don't care how much fun it is...
(Been there, done that with AT&T Unix).
I really want to know how to make a living writing software professionally
under the free software concept.
Don't want to get rich. Just want to make a reasonable living (better then
delivering Papa John's at least) by writing software new software for a free
software OS.
Thos
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