Proprietary software is not logical. It wastes resources because

fuck off spock

Yeah but at least you get paid at a company :^)

imagine being so entitled that you think that you should personally have access to the representation of source code worked for hundreds of thousands of man hours for free

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may the force be with you

>>61288110
>That is not only illogical but it is sad.
>using spock as a picture
>not saying the picture is unrelated
>op is a complete waste of resources because he fails to understand that spock couldn't be sad

Kill yourself op

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>>61288356

>yourself

>>61288131
yes, that includes getting paid for making free software

>>61288497
*you'reself

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>>61288160

this does not mean that people could not be paid to devote a pre-negotiated amount of time to development to the project. it would still be worth doing because you cannot rely on the open source community, nobody is denying that.

>>61288110
>implying any open source software is successful as the gnu project.

>>61288160
sure. I am entitled to the accomplishments of mankind and they in turn are entitled to mine.

cooperation is the way forward and greed is the ball-and-chain holding us in place.

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>>61288131
Water fountains are free and yet the people who make water fountains and who install and maintain them get paid. Radio is free and yet the people who work at radio companies get paid.

>>61288160
It is not that I necessarily want the source for free. It is that non open source software has been shown by decades of history to be doomed to fail, and there doesn't really seem to be an alternative besides giving it away for free and charging for service.

>>61288356
Anyone who has watched star trek in depth and read the books will know that because of his half human side spock could get sad.

>>61288611
tbqhfalamam the web at large is basically dominated by open source principles and technologies

all the proprietary shit (java, flash, etc) is disappearing in favor of superior vendor-agnostic standards

not even MS could make a dent in it with their activex and silverlight bullshit

>>61288611
Netscape/Mozilla would like a word with you.

Business people don't care about long term growth anymore. The future is uncertain. Why would they invest into something that provided long term growth?

>>61288699
>8% marketshare

What would be nice is if you can charge for free software. It is allowed by the GPL, but I don't really know of any software that actually does this. The only popular model is the dual license model where you have a proprietary version that companies can pay, but I think that is dumb because then you remove the whole point of the GPL. According to the GPL, you can charge for the software but the source also doesn't need to be public, you only need to give it to people who you distributed the software too.

>>61288669
>what are taxes

>>61288800
The people you distribute the software to can then turn around and sell it at your behest. This is the major deterrent for companies.

In reality, it's not an actual problem, but I can tell why it gives people pause.

>>61288844
Yeah, they can also post it online for free. They would only have access to that version of the software though. I recall this one GPL software becoming proprietary because GNU/Linux distros were packaging it and no one was buying it from them.

b-b-b-but

>i-ii-it's unconventional

>>61288356
Spock was half human, he got mad at kirk a few times even in the original series.

>>61288815
>are

proprietary software is about monopoly. sure there is custom and niche software, but mostly it's about companies like microsoft and now stuff like uber just dominating and becoming multi-billion dollar behemoths