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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:35604 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1897 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!ogicse!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!stein2.u.washington.edu!tzs From: tzs@stein2.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Message-ID: <1r83dcINNuu@shelley.u.washington.edu> Date: 23 Apr 93 06:47:08 GMT Article-I.D.: shelley.1r83dcINNuu References: <1993Apr20.110521.180705@zeus.calpoly.edu> <C5sEv3.BqM@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <C5uMLz.GzK@kithrup.com> Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95 Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: stein2.u.washington.edu In article <C5uMLz.GzK@kithrup.com> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: >The FSF has relied largely on donations to their cause; they have not tried >to sell either software or programming. Due to a variety of conditions, that >money is drying up, and the FSF is now trying to push themselves to get >money -- which, of course, is exactly what other charitable organizations do. >Until recently, the FSF relied largely on word-of-mouth, you see. > >It is entirely possible to work only on free software and still make a decent >living. > But where does the money for that decent living come from? It's been proven that you can make a decent living on free software in the current software market, since you are doing it, but it's not clear that this would be true if everyone tried to work only on free software. How much of the money that goes to support free software comes from people who are getting it by working on non-free software? --Tim Smith