Comments on: Does Free Software destroy the IT Profession?

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.

By: db0

db0 — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:41:04 +0000

The reason why MS is not moving to particular areas of SW is that they do not want to. Perhaps this is because they have simply no interest in it, perhaps they perceive they do not have enough funds to achieve it. But when they did want to, they managed to muscle themselves in, no matter how entrenched the opposition. MS Office and Active Directory come to mind and the underhanded ways by which they achieved dominance.

As for the point that whatever huga companies did not see a profit in would not happen I have to ask…are you living in this world? Free Software is KNOWN for making things happen for which big companies saw no profit in. In fact, Free software is the perfect for breaking into markets where there is an entrentched player.

As for you putting down Open Office, I have to disagree. From my experience, for anything but the most advanced and MS-Office related tasks it does the job perfectly.

By: Ozynonymous

Ozynonymous — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:26:47 +0000

7. Which means that anything big companies would not see a profit in — or would not see sufficient profit in — would not happen. There is very good reason to suspect this is the case: in categories of software in which there is a major entrenched player, there are no viable alternatives being pushed by corporations. Where's Microsoft or Apple's equivalent to Adobe Photoshop? Where is Apple or Adobe's equivalent to Microsoft Office? There's a lot of money to be made out there by developing an alternative to Photoshop, or even Photoshop Elements, and offering it at a slightly lower cost than Adobe's inflated prices. So why aren't any big corporations doing it? There are some alternatives to Photoshop Elements — and they're made by little small groups who try to recoup their investment by selling the software. And they are sometimes successful at doing it, too!

(Well, okay, there's Apple's iWork. I use it myself when I'm on a Mac. But I don't delude myself into believing it is a substitute for a full version of Office. Aside from having no database component, like OpenOffice it is missing all the advanced features that you start to need the minute you're doing more than writing a letter to your aunt or doing a few quick calculations in a spreadsheet. I once wrote a 40-page document for the local government in OpenOffice 3.1 — my choice, not theirs; they wanted Microsoft Office — and it was horribly cumbersome even though I wasn't doing anything particularly difficult. Features I could have used — and have used on other programs — didn't exist, features which did exist had bizarre inaccessible interfaces, formatting was buggy as heck, the useful toolbar options were crowded out by things I don't believe anyone would ever want on a toolbar, and several of the relevant default settings were the opposite of what you would expect.)