[lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 12:16 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2009, at 12:07 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> 
> > is there a *social* advantage to doing things the open source way?
> 
> I'm not sure how it's exactly "socialist." The programmers do their  
> work for free, meaning they have to have other means of support. So  
> they're doing the work in their spare time. That really doesn't  
> transform social relations, does it?
> 
> Is our model a world in which programmers - and musicians and writers  
> - don't get paid for their work?

I have friends who get paid to write free software for a living.
Occasionally my employer has paid me to write free software.