Comments on: Does Free Software destroy the IT Profession?

By: PHP development

PHP development — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:26:45 +0000

A lot of folks then made the same argument as this one – progress means we'll lose jobs! No, progress means we increase production while creating new kinds of jobs. Tell your boss that some MBA on the internet says he should either reread his economics textbook, or take an economics class.

By: Shuanaustin

Shuanaustin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:13:38 +0000

The biggest software companies who are sucking at the tit of the state would suffer from it and possibly some programmers earning currently absurd salaries would have to scale down their demands to be in line with everyone else in the world, but everyone else would benefit. Better software for a fraction of the cost and a far wider tail for people to make a living on. The IT Profession would go nowhere as long as a demand for it exists.

By: Ewan Milne

Ewan Milne — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:12:21 +0000

May be yes of may be not but the fact is that software always not helpful in every condition so we have to do less use of software.

By: Dominik Milne

Dominik Milne — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:11:04 +0000

Yes it really effect on it profession because now in the internet world every one want shortcut to create any such things so that they divert to software and sometime it create some problem. so according to me free software effect on it profession.

By: db0

db0 — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:50:30 +0000

Go on.

By: Micluther

Micluther — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:31:06 +0000

As a developer I know my time and skills are valuable and I use both to feed my family and support my dependants. Without this possibility I have no incentive to develop software.

By: android developer

android developer — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:05:40 +0000

Copyrights were not created on us from the starting of IT, the existing business models would not have developed themselves around them. There would certainly be a need for application and actions and that would certainly have been fulfilled, only it would have been done in a different way. To take the way the application program has developed because copyrights continued and state that this is the only way it can ever operate and the end on the earth is nigh if we process this is merely outrageous. No price Software ensures this wrong.

By: tyomero

tyomero — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:41:58 +0000

Of course something is wrong with the way we're doign things right now. This is very clear when you see people that is hungry, not because there's not enought food but because they can't aford it. And the food producers are paid to produce less or destroy food so that someone can get more profit. The internet, free software, creative commons and other initiatives are showing us a better way to do things, we just have to apply those same principles in other directions. Check out the Venus Project to see how this could be done: http://www.thevenusproject.com/

By: TehMagicAuthor

TehMagicAuthor — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:47:35 +0000

"Making as close to a carbon copy as can be managed of someone else's work, without crediting them or paying them, is not creativity."

Nor is your conception of authorship universal, or a given: http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/nimust…

By: db0

db0 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:44:08 +0000

nstead start wondering aloud what your motivation is for trying to kill off all the small developers in favor of big projects dominated by large corporations?

You already implied that. You even said it explicitly for Stallman and the GPL.

In any case, you can ponder aloud all you wish, but please take it to your own blog.