From: Greg Brown <greg7224@...>
Date: 2005-08-14T18:46:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby report generation tool


Julian Leviston wrote:
> how do u earn money from them then?

Austin put this quite well though I have to say that I've made my
living off of free software thus far.  Essentially I have been funded
by companies to implement certain features into generic systems that
they don't have much of a stake in.  I make this agreement with them
and all they care about is the fact that they get a product that does
what they want, and they leave me free to share.

To me, anything I can share with the community, I will.  I do not take
straight proprietary jobs simply because I never want to lock my source
in a vault for life and throw away the key.  There are a ton of reasons
to write Free Software, and Austin mentions many of them.

For me, it's just fun to share and get to know people and all of that
good stuff.