...for your open source contributions that help him undercut your wage.
IBM understands it...you're not winning a war by IBM playing 'nice' with the opensource community. A company will do whatever is profitable. At the moment, IBM get's free code and great PR out of a few token gestures. They they outsource any actual development work to [insert current outsource country here] which use your freely given code to lower their development costs. RMS argues that there is enough money to be made in the service markets to sustain your wages...well, guess what...IBM has been making a pretty spectacular play for that service market for quite some time now...and it's taking your freely given software and using it to increase it's market penetration. Do you really think that 'small developer X' will be able to compete with IBM in the service market? But it's ok, RMS will be safe because he can always make a living on the tour circuit.
Brilliant strategy guys, see you in the soup kitchen line.
Anything else you want to blame on open source while your at it? World hunger? The asian tsunami? Religious bigotry?
Face it, the vast majority indian software developers are doing proprietary software development for US companies, not offering solutions based on open source software. The open source vs properietary software debate has very little to do with outsourcing.
That said outsourcing is not the big bad thing you like to paint it as. Economic growth in Asia hurts America as little as economic growth in Europe after WW2 did, in other words it do not hurt at all, in fact it a positive contribution.
The open source vs properietary software debate has very little to do with outsourcing
The point was about competative advantage...if you put your time and effort into something, then give it away to the world, don't bitch when someone fires your ass, takes your code and hires someone cheaper...if you'd licensed your solution (at reasonable rates) you'd still be able to feed your family, as well as probably build a business and hire local technologists. But instead, you give away a product that makes the
Funny thing is that I quit my job at a company which did license their software to start work at a company doing free software. And guess what, I am more upbeat about my new company's prospect than I ever was about the old one. Our competitive advantage comes from the skills and experiences of our employees and being able to build upon the free software out there to make our products quick, cheap and good. Our customers are using Indian and Chinese outsourced labour too and while that solves some problems f
because they realize it is a better development model than the closed sourced one
Of course it's a better business model. Every bit of code that they had to pay someone to maintain, they can now get people to maintain for free...what's not better about that!!
Just out of interest...what do you see as the future for open source...when all the software in the world is free, where do you see your paycheck coming from? Services? IBM and other major players will sew that market up faster than you can blink.
Many small companies will require configuration and support they can afford. IBM et all will not be able to provide for that (it will not be cost effective to baby-sit a 10 body company's IT infrastructure).
A lot of companies will require to customize software to their exact needs. It is impossible for IBM or anybody else to do all this kind of work.
And in any case I don't see anything wrong with working for IBM, the big advantage would be that idiotic NDAs will no
Exactly. Economics is not a zero sum game, and as other countries increase in economic wealth and power, so too will the United States and other Western countries.
Sometimes I think econ 101 would be a helpful prerequisite to/. posters.
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers
something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
your indian replacement thanks you... (Score:4, Insightful)
IBM understands it...you're not winning a war by IBM playing 'nice' with the opensource community. A company will do whatever is profitable. At the moment, IBM get's free code and great PR out of a few token gestures. They they outsource any actual development work to [insert current outsource country here] which use your freely given code to lower their development costs. RMS argues that there is enough money to be made in the service markets to sustain your wages...well, guess what...IBM has been making a pretty spectacular play for that service market for quite some time now...and it's taking your freely given software and using it to increase it's market penetration. Do you really think that 'small developer X' will be able to compete with IBM in the service market? But it's ok, RMS will be safe because he can always make a living on the tour circuit.
Brilliant strategy guys, see you in the soup kitchen line.
Re:your indian replacement thanks you... (Score:4, Insightful)
Face it, the vast majority indian software developers are doing proprietary software development for US companies, not offering solutions based on open source software. The open source vs properietary software debate has very little to do with outsourcing.
That said outsourcing is not the big bad thing you like to paint it as. Economic growth in Asia hurts America as little as economic growth in Europe after WW2 did, in other words it do not hurt at all, in fact it a positive contribution.
Re:your indian replacement thanks you... (Score:2)
The point was about competative advantage...if you put your time and effort into something, then give it away to the world, don't bitch when someone fires your ass, takes your code and hires someone cheaper...if you'd licensed your solution (at reasonable rates) you'd still be able to feed your family, as well as probably build a business and hire local technologists. But instead, you give away a product that makes the
Re:your indian replacement thanks you... (Score:2)
Re:your indian replacement thanks you... (Score:2)
Of course it's a better business model. Every bit of code that they had to pay someone to maintain, they can now get people to maintain for free...what's not better about that!!
Just out of interest...what do you see as the future for open source...when all the software in the world is free, where do you see your paycheck coming from? Services? IBM and other major players will sew that market up faster than you can blink.
Customaziation, support. (Score:2)
Many small companies will require configuration and support they can afford. IBM et all will not be able to provide for that (it will not be cost effective to baby-sit a 10 body company's IT infrastructure).
A lot of companies will require to customize software to their exact needs. It is impossible for IBM or anybody else to do all this kind of work.
And in any case I don't see anything wrong with working for IBM, the big advantage would be that idiotic NDAs will no
Re:your indian replacement thanks you... (Score:2)
Sometimes I think econ 101 would be a helpful prerequisite to /. posters.