[Freeswitch-users] GPL Wins Again

[Madovsky]

its' also an excellent way for big companies to avoid
to pay employees to make all the dev work also....


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M. Ranganathan" <mranga at gmail.com>
To: "FreeSWITCH Users Help" <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] GPL Wins Again


> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Madovsky <infos at madovsky.org> wrote:
>> I read well don't worry,
>> I say that because companies start to instrumentalize open source.
>> so after years some developers (for google summer source code for ex)
>> realise that they spent all their lifetime for a big company for free...
>> that is why I called Open Fools....
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> I speak for myself  (as an individual) here :
> 
> I disagree with your characterization. Open source is engineers
> collaborating informally on a shared piece of basic infrastructure
> code so as to amortize engineering cost, testing cost and beta
> testing. As an open source developer, you give away something to get a
> lot in return so you can build on the sum total of collaborative
> effort.
> 
> Open source is also an excellent way for students to establish a track
> record. Yes it is free labor but try getting a job these days as a
> fresh graduate with no experience and you will see what I am talking
> about.
> 
> Ranga
> 
> 
> -- 
> M. Ranganathan
> 
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