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Jason Alexander — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 06:09:00 GMT

I completely agree on all points.

Particularly your last point of money vs. love. It's definitely a big different with the MS community. I used to do OSS projects in Java, PHP, etc... (in a previous life) and have found that OSS projects in .NET to be negligible. nGallery is great, and I've got a few really great team members, and people really use the heck out of it, but I get very little feedback, comments, suggestions, etc... from the community. It's frustrating at times.

Anyways, I ramble. Great post, Alex!

-Jason

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Alex Lowe — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:07:00 GMT

Oh yeah, I should have mentioned in my post that I LOVE nGallery (http://www.ngallery.org) and that I use it as the gallery software of choice for my kid's website (what an endorsement =)!

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Jeff — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 21:11:00 GMT

I agree about the money thing. I think that MS people have been pointing that out to forum trolls for years now. I don't want to work for free unless it's out of love for something. I'm building stuff for clients in part for the challenge, but mostly because living my J-Pizzie lifestyle is expensive.

"But Jeff, you give away forum software!"

Yeah, I do. You know why? Because Microsoft put out their own for free and there are a boat load of free apps for other platforms as well. I can't sell it. I might as well give it away.

I also agree with Jason regarding feedback. I don't get much for my forums but yet they're downloaded thousands of times a month. It's way cool that a guy wrote an Access data layer for it, but that's really the extent of the love I've had.

At the end of the day, you have to ask if open source solutions deliver quality solutions in a reasonable amount of time. Looking at how the MS platform has blown so far past PHP, I'd say that having a driving company behind it that must make quarterly earnings reports is much better for making something happen.

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Richard Tallent — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:11:00 GMT

I code for love AND money. I have an OSS .NET project, JPEGHammer, which Omar Shahine (an MS employee) has basically run further with than I ever have had(made) time to imagine.

I firmly believe in paid hobbies, and if the quality of the .NET platform lets me get much higher value out of an application with the same personal time invested, why not try to recoup that?

The Java community is not much different: sure, there's plenty of free Java code, but the *majority* of OSS projects tend to be play-toy, half-baked ideas written in old-school, unmanaged C and C++. This is not to say that .NET and Java OSS projects aren't also half-baked, but we're cooking at a slightly higher temperature ;).

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Drifting Soul... — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 19:04:00 GMT

Few observations:

1. It isn't written anywhere that free software doesn't make money. Few free cms software likes of PHPNuke has afforded many a source of income over past few years. Making money is in the art of being able to sell.

2. Jeff: Microsoft gave away forum software therefore you can't sell yours? OpenOffice gives away a complete office solution compatible with Microsoft Office. Should Microsoft throw the towel? Here is a list of some .NET forum software that are selling:

http://www.dotnetbb.com/
http://www.aspmultichat.com/

3. Isn't coding for love of money not showing your passion for coding?

4. Usually only people who are toying with products and/or in very early prototype state use free software. When you run a business, usually support is the most important thing. So, when I build and give away free software, I am usually lining up my future business. Of the people that really end up becoming a business and my solution has solved their problem, they will enventually seek my consulting. Example: Redhat is/was giving away linux. My company pays for 1000's of support license for linux to Redhat.

5.

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Alex Lowe — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 20:26:00 GMT

Drifter,

I would certainly agree with you that folks can and are making money on free software. However, those folks make up a very small percentage of those making money on software in general. I'm sure that some of this is driven from the fact that OSS is not pervasive in many organizations. I would still say that while it may be working for some, it is not a proven business model - yet.

No, coding for love of money is exactly what I'm talking about. Coding for love of money is showing your *passion for money*. Coding is simply a means to an end in that case.

Your company is paying thousands of dollars in support for Redhat Linux because Redhat did not having success actually selling the software. If they could, they would sell the software and provide support as it is needed. I think this is more of an example where the profit model around OSS is evolving such that companies don't go out of business.

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What exactly is INETA if it is not something like Apache?
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