Re: Why open source?

Nathan

As to giving away open source - I think the presentation addressed that to a degree - Dan Pink mentioned that those who do things like open source, they have jobs, as well. And they use their own time for what does not get them monetary reward.

Now if your job is to write software, it's important to get paid for that - sorry for the piercing glance at the obvious. Then you might go write something just for the fun of it, just because you can, just because it gives you satisfaction. You probably won't get paid for that. But it's not your job, after all.

I think that's a bit of reconciliation, eh?

Vern

On 6/3/2010 4:48 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

From: Aaron Bartell
Awhile back we had discussion about why in the heck someone would
want to give away source without much, if any, monetary or business
return.

I could relate to the video, too. Individuals pursuing activities that require thinking, and especially creativity, need and value autonomy and self-direction. And we're willing to sacrifice money, for it.

But individual ownership is a big motivator, too; reaping from that which you sew; which may not mesh with your ideas about open-source. How would you reconcile that?

BTW, I appreciated your comment on Steve Wills blog, as well as other places, promoting the idea of micro-partitioning IBM i servers in small enough slices, that individual programmers might afford autonomy, self-direction, and individual ownership of work product. Too many IBM i programmers are stuck with working only on employer's servers, where the employer controls the manner and means, so to speak.

-Nathan.