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Stallman leads the GPL off a cliff (ZDNet)Stallman leads the GPL off a cliff (ZDNet)Posted Jan 30, 2006 11:00 UTC (Mon) by a.spengler (guest, #10027)Parent article: Stallman leads the GPL off a cliff (ZDNet) But why are DEVELOPERS, the people who MAKE THEIR LIVING from this stuff, supposed to welcome the erosion of value in their industry? Why are so many people in IT thinking, that some piece of code only has a value, if that code can be transformed into some shrink-wrap off-the-shelf product? Oh, I forgot, the guy works at Redmond...
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Stallman leads the GPL off a cliff (ZDNet) Posted Jan 30, 2006 17:43 UTC (Mon) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link] Developers (at least, those of us who have been around for a while) recognize that there is a far higher demand for quality software of all kinds than the supply of (competent) developers can ever hope to meet, and that (a) we'd just as soon stop reinventing proprietary wheels and -- perhaps more importantly -- (b) if IT departments weren't wasting so much money on proprietary software, they might have more to devote to interesting new projects that need doing.
Those that are worried about "erosion of value" are more worried about offshoring development to places like Bangalore than they're worried about free software.
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