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By gst
via flexblog.faratasystems.com
Published: Oct 05 2007 / 16:57

When a bus pulls out the bus stop, a person who’s running to catch this bus and the person who is already in the bus see things differently. On the same note, people who use the free software and people who develop it look at giving away the software for free differently. I had a chance to be in both camps… Besides offering professional services, our company, Farata Systems, creates software components and plugins . When we’ve released our first component DAOFlex and saw a couple of thousand downloads, we’ve decided to invest our own money and created a number of productivity plugins that would save time of professional software developers. Unless you work for a large firm, there is a huge difference between creating an open source and commercial software. With open source components, availability of any product documentation is perceived as an extra bonus. With the for-profit software, a well written documentation is expected, or else…
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dzonelurker replied ago:

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Gosh, you are sooooo smart!

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peimei replied ago:

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Charging for software shows that it was developed out of a love for money. Open Sourcing it means you did it for the love of humanity and programming. :)

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