meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) (12/20/89)
In article <NELSON.89Dec18212423@image.clarkson.edu> nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: |In article <8255@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes: |There is indeed a way to make money off of Copylefted software. You |find a user group whose members need a particular program that you are |capable of writing. The user group pays you your money and you write the |program. | |They get a useful program that they can give to their friends, family, |and whoever else they want. And you get a risk-free way to earn XX |amount of dollars. You *know* that you will make money off of the |program, and you even know how much. Which puts me in the same place as a consultant. If I wanted to do that, I would (and I have). (Consultant, contract programmer, whatever) |As I see it, what *you* want is the right to make an unlimited amount |of money off of your program. Nope. But if I see a need, and I fill it, I should be able to make a good living off of that. And in this country, I get to decide what that good living ought to be, and shoot for it. Find me enough user groups to keep even all the *good* software engineers, programmers, etc, out there busy and paid at the rate they want (or are you in the seat to decide what they *ought* to get paid?), or think they're worth. Go ahead. Send me the list. Sounds like utopian thinking. Sure, I dream, but I also live in the real world. Someone (Barry?) got into the economics of it VERY well in a recent posting, and I have yet to see a rational, economics-based response. -Miles
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (12/20/89)
In article <8277@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes:
Find me enough user groups to keep even all the *good* software engineers,
programmers, etc, out there busy and paid at the rate they want (or are you
in the seat to decide what they *ought* to get paid?), or think they're
worth. Go ahead. Send me the list.
Aha! I see you're getting close to the truth. Most of what passes for
programming today is wheel-reinventing.
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
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Shut up and mind your Canadian business, you meddlesome foreigner. -- TK, 23 N.meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) (12/21/89)
I wrote: | |Find me enough user groups to keep even all the *good* software engineers, |programmers, etc, out there busy and paid at the rate they want (or are you |in the seat to decide what they *ought* to get paid?), or think they're |worth. Go ahead. Send me the list. Russ Nelson responded: |Aha! I see you're getting close to the truth. Most of what passes for |programming today is wheel-reinventing. Aha! I already figured taht one out a long time ago! But (a) what is most? 50%? 90% I don't know. I *do* know I don't work at that type of thing. If it isn't creative, and doesn't meet some real need, I'll leave it to the COBOL folks at the bank... 8^) -Miles