🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <DAVIDM.92May20130355@consilium.com> davidm@consilium.com (David S. Masterson) writes:

   >>>>> On 19 May 92 23:03:58 GMT, fox@cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) said:

   > In article <DAVIDM.92May17122612@consilium.com>
   > davidm@consilium.com (David S. Masterson) writes:

   >    How has *developing* GNU software helped [you]?  Have [you] seen a
   >    "return on investment" (you provide the definition)?

   > I have written free software, released it, and had someone else decide to
   > make it useable.  Hence, I've saved 50% of my time investment.

   I don't follow this.  I can't see how you "saved" 50% of time you
   never invested in the development of the software.  The time
   someone spent to make the software useable (to them -- I assume you
   meant it was already useable to you) is above and beyond the work
   you did.  Therefore, it seems like its not a savings to you, but an
   added burden to them...

It wasn't really usable to me until they were finished.
It wasn't an added burden to them because they got to
start their project with half the work already done.