Re:The fundamentalist FOSS mentality
by eeZah7Ux on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @09:05AM
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Comparing developers with academics is more apt. Mathematicians and other scientists don't charge usage fees for their theorems or discoveries.
Yes, you can pay the author for a book but you can reuse and modify ideas and concepts at will.
Job security is quite relevant in academia: most discoveries in the last 100 years were [in]directly funded by government and researchers were usually not working under time or financial pressure.
Yes, you can pay the author for a book but you can reuse and modify ideas and concepts at will.
Job security is quite relevant in academia: most discoveries in the last 100 years were [in]directly funded by government and researchers were usually not working under time or financial pressure.