Archive for March, 2006
How can you make money if it’s free? (Profit models of Free Open Source)
A while back Gas wrote an article that criticized open source software as not offering the necessary incentives to drive people to develop for deaf, blind, grandma, and other types of non-programmers who use computers. (In response to this article I wrote before that). While some might criticize Tim’s post as MS fanboying, I think [...]
FOSS and the Handicapped (Part 2)
After writing an article about the economics of open source, I keep finding random commentary that agrees with the point I was making. This time it was a post at Rick Schaut’s blog that was linked to by Raymond Chen.
FOSS and the handicapped
A few weeks ago I wrote this article about the economics of open source and how it affects the types of software written. Apparently I’m not the only one to have noticed.
Evil Walmart (a.k.a. brain dump)
People who complain about walmart are hypocrites, 9 times out of 10. I’m not saying that walmart isn’t evil. Walmart mistreats it’s employees, I don’t doubt that. But I have a proposition to proove my point that the complainers are usually hypocrites. Next time you’re going to go shopping, go to walmart. Keep track of [...]