{"id":182,"date":"2004-07-11T18:26:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T23:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=182"},"modified":"2004-07-11T18:26:30","modified_gmt":"2004-07-11T23:26:30","slug":"open-source-kills-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/11\/open-source-kills-jobs","title":{"rendered":"Open source kills jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiacomputerweekly.com\/acw_ViewArt.cfm?Magid=1&#038;Artid=24328&#038;Catid=2&#038;subcat=19\">thinks so<\/a>. Especially, since that&#8217;s what he seems to be fanning on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/29\/more-on-bills-agenda\">his little world tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t want to create jobs or intellectual property, then there is a tendency to develop open source. It is not something you do as a day job. If you want to give it away, you work on it at night.&#8221;<\/em> So I guess all the hackers at Red Hat, Novell, Sun, and the numerous other OSS companies, are working <em>only at night<\/em> :)<\/p>\n<p>Seems to think there&#8217;s no &#8220;guarantee&#8221; or <em>&#8220;someone who stands behind your software&#8221;<\/em> in the open source world &#8211; err, of course he discounts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhat.com\/apps\/support\/\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/company\/customer\/index.html\">this<\/a> and the numerous other firms that do it, in a local market.<\/p>\n<p>Target message to the governments where piracy is rampant: <strong>a big loss in tax revenue<\/strong>. Let&#8217;s hope governments aren&#8217;t silly enough to infer that OSS also provides a possible loss in tax revenue&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Open%20source%20kills%20jobs%3F&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F07%2F11%2Fopen-source-kills-jobs&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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