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Raul

We are talking here about Open Access, not open source - I know that some poster mentioned the latter, but the thread is not really about that - except that it is difficult to do open source development with Open Access for all the reasons we have been stating here.

I also know that it is possible to write an article that is "dependent on serious, honest profesionals, that will take the time to learn about the proyects" - even when the author gets paid.

There is nothing wrong with getting paid to write an article about anything - just as there is nothing wrong with getting paid to do programming for your employer.

:-X

Regards
Vern

On 3/11/2011 1:25 PM, Raul A. Jager W. wrote:
Open Source is great, but magazines will always go after the money.
No magazine will publish good, realistic articles about open source and
lose the paid advertising.
Open Source is dependent on serious, honest profesionals, that will take
and reject the nice comisions
offered as an incentive to recomend a paid option.
Are we?

Jon Paris wrote:
On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:39 AM, rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

There is a always another option - Time for us to put our opensource hats on! :-)


And that is where I get really frustrated by the licensing etc. Larry. Magazine articles and Open Source type projects are not likely to proliferate until you know your audience can get their hands on the required software pre-reqs. Right now it is a bit like writing code for a target audience that hasn't got the RPG compiler!


Jon Paris


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