From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 02:18:45 MDT
Robert Coyote wrote:
>
> I ask the simplest question
> How does one finance ones life as a programmer when you give away all your
> creativity and work for free?
I don't give away all my work for free. My skills are fairly
rare. I charge an arm and a leg to use those skills for my
bread and butter with enough left over to use those same skills
(and others) outside my paying job.
Companies sell services and systems as much or more than just
software.
>
> what is this "external funding" ?
>
> How do you buy a House by programing in Opensource?
By generating income. Closing the source and shrink-wrapping a
package is only one of the ways to make money as a software
engineer.
- samantha
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