🚀 go-pugleaf

codemonkey_uk@hotmail.com (Code Monkey UK) writes:

> Dave Blake wrote:
> 
> >Code Monkey UK wrote:
> >>Thats abusrd.  Do you plan to turn programmers into a slave race for
> >>the rest of the word?  Because that what your implying by saying that
> >>programmers shouldnt charge for there work, or have a say in what
> >>happens to their creations?!?!
> >
> >Who said any of that ?
> 
> <ahem>
> Actually, nobody did.  I misunderstood something Thandor had said, and
> I've appologised to him/her via email. :(
> >
> >There are many paid programmers who do GPL work.
> >
> Paid programmers who do GPL work, or programmers who are payed to do
> GPL work?  There is a big difference.
> 
> I would appreciate an example how how you can make a living (enough
> money to provide food, home, clothing and some entertainment) from GPL
> work, because obviosly it is idealogicly better, I just can't see how
> it can be done!
> 
> (I have only just saved enough money to buy my own second hand PC
> after working for a comercial games co for 4 years.)
> 
> >And it seems to me that the person who creates a 
> >GPL project has ultimate control over that project by
> >maintaining an 'official' distribution.  The programmer
> >both gets paid and has control.
> >
> A nice way to retain control, but I don't see how anyone could make
> any money off it.
> 
> >That is, of course, just one working model for making
> >software.
> >
> Its not a working model until you've explained where the money comes
> from!

Stallman explains it on the gnu www site.

		Klaus schilling