SV: Obsolesence of Intellectual Property

From: Max Møller Rasmussen (maxm@normik.dk)
Date: Fri Aug 04 2000 - 02:12:19 MDT


From: Matt Gingell

>Most free software is written by hobbiests - there is no 'cost', no more
than
>fooling around in your garage woodshop constitutes capital expenditure
which
>has to be recouped.

Well that sentence at least is testable. Is there any data available as to
whom contribute what and where they are employed?

Most of the free software I use is written by somebody employed somewhere
for writing exactly that software. As you yourself are.

I don't believe that free software is a hobbyist project anymore, but would
like to see data to show me wrong.

Max M Rasmussen (Denmark)



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