clipka escreveu:
> with shareware) - but I as a professional software developer could make some
> points.

I'm a professional software developer too -- though most probably not 
talking as close to the metal as some of you guys here seem to -- and I 
believe I can make a few points as well. ;)

> Most importantly, the "aggressive" type of open source, as pushed by the FSF and
> their GPL, if it succeeded, would (put a little bit to extreme to emphasize the
> point) deprive individuals of their freedom to devote their whole life to
> developing software, and share it with others in exchange for pizza, computer
> hardware, and a roof above the head.

I don't think so.  Most enterprises either build their private systems 
in house or pay a third party to build it and even hand over the source 
code anyway.  Private enterprise commercial systems are hardly portable 
or fittable to other organization needs so there's really no point in 
open-sourcing a one-fits-all kind of system and even if there was they 
would still hire software developers to customize it.

I see open-source primarily as a great way of diminishing production 
costs by sharing such cost of development and maintanence with other 
interested parties:  everyone benefit from it and the more interested 
parties, the better.  It's a very good development model geared 
primarily for general purpose infrastructure software, but not so much 
for user applications which are meant to be specific.

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