Re: Elektor Electronics new website

From: Winfield Hill (hill_a_at_t_rowland-dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: 19 Feb 2005 09:21:46 -0800

Winfield Hill wrote...
>
>Fred Abse wrote...
>>
>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:09:18 -0800, Joel Kolstad wrote:
>>
>>> Linux is a great example of people doing things for free that
>>> one would typically expect to be well paid for.
>>
>> These days, a lot of open-source developers are sponsored by the
>> various distributions. probably not "well paid", but paid
>> nevertheless.
>
> It's a myth that Linux comes primarily from unpaid programmers.
>
> At LinuxWorld Thursday I met many Linux programmers who earn
> good salaries to make their contributions to free software.
>
> Companies like IBM, Sun, Novell, Red Hat, HP, Intel, and CA, to
> mention a few, have large staffs of free-software programmers.
> There are many other places with small, but important software
> engineering contributors. We even have one at the Institute.

 We can add Cisco to the list above, given that they have already
 converted more than 2,000 of their engineers to Linux desktops,
 and have plans to move many more laptop users to the platform over
 the next few years. They say the driver for Linux on the desktop
 for them is not cost savings, but easier support.
 http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1394751021;fp;4;fpid;3

 One thing that happens when a company has many Linux users is that
 the company becomes motivated to work on areas in Linux that can
 use improvement, or they add features they need, which often end
 up back in the community. While we can think of many features or
 changes Windows needs, there's no effective way to bring them about. 

-- 
 Thanks,
    - Win

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