[ale] Ernie Ball says F.Y. to Microsoft

[Calvin Harrigan]

Ummm, what about the code he is probably still using that the
freeloaders provided?
What about all that free linux/gnu/bsd/mit,etc code you use that the
freeloaders made available?

Calvin...

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 18:35, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:05:08PM +0000, runman at speedfactory.net wrote:
> > I don't know the answer, but I think the question has several layers of issues that perhaps Mr. Ball is not aware of - though I also think that the answers are  out there.  Perhaps if folks were willing to pony up the dough for developers to  "tweak" certain apps to fit their business, then perhaps they could get what they want.  However, unless paid, I tend to write/contribute to only projects that interest me and not particularly a business owner.
> > 
> 
> 
> I have a developer that works for me that sometimes writes OS code and contributes
> back on our nicel.  It may be greedy but him and I have got in arguments over
> why I should pay him per hour to develop software that others can use for free
> and save money over us.  We've extended a few OS projects to make
> them work much better IMO but I've had to pay him to do that while freeloaders 
> reap rewards.  However we did reap some rewards from starting with the code
> base to begin with.  Its just to make certain OS project useable we had to 
> "fix" them.
> 
> Chris
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