Quoting Ben Lutgens (blutgens at sistina.com): > Some people code for cash. I don't see a problem with that. Everyone > deserves to make a living and talented programmers should be faily well > off IMHO. -I- make a living by writing code, so I think I am qualified to speak on the topic. Most of the code I have written is available at Real Time's SourceForge project. More is there every week. I read somewhere, that open source is -not- a business model, it's a software development model. This is what Real Time does. We develop everything open source. The business model is for clients to pay us to install, maintain, package, monitor, secure and support the open source components. > Again, not against free stuff but we shouldn't hate people for trying to > make a living. Anyone who thinks that people shouldn't be paid for hard > work and briliant code should try writing some sometime. Sounds more like prepping the Linux world for some commerical software offerings from Sistina. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9