Open Source capitalists

[James Baird]

> 
> Someone else mentioned that open-source software is
> being written in the
> unis.  I'd have to call BS on that.  In my
> experience most of the useful
> open-source software is coming from for-profit
> companies, or coming from
> people whose for-profit employer encourages them to
> work on those efforts.
> The people working on open-source software are not
> doing it out of
> altruism.
> 

This is a relatively recent development, though.  The
original Berkeley extensions to Unix, Sendmail, GNU C,
and the Linux kernal itself were all, if not official
university projects, developed by people who had the
time and resources that a university environment
provides.  Even today, there are few for-profit
employers enlightened enough to allow their employees
to work on "free" software...

Jim Baird

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