Linux World domination (was Re: [NCLUG] PC for Linux (Ubuntu))

[Chad Perrin]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:23:59PM +0000, grant at amadensor.com wrote:
> >
> >When there are no longer jobs for people to write software, there  
> >will be less demand for formal training in writing software, and  
> >with it the pool of those writing software will become small.
> >
> >The best situation is where FOSS and proprietary software recognize  
> >they are symbiotic by nature, and support each other, rather than  
> >the current context that FOSS will eliminate proprietary software.
> 
> I fail to see how FLOSS removes salaries from software developers.

That's because it doesn't.


> 
> Some developers who write applications for shrink-wrap may lose out,  
> but there are far more of us who write things for in-house use, and we  
> will be unaffected.   It will take less time to write the same code,  
> but they will not need less of us because we will be able to cost  
> effectively replace packaged software.

Agreed.

There are many other business models that may also support software
developers as employees, and also don't depend on any copyright law at
all.  Writing code for Microsoft is not the only way to make money as a
developer and, in fact, that is a vanishingly small percentage of the
total number of paid developers in the world.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ]
Coline MacDonald: "Don't burn your bridges while you're standing on
them."
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