<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Carsten Agger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agger@modspil.dk" target="_blank">agger@modspil.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span class=""><div class="m_6375386105222821224moz-cite-prefix">On 12/17/2016 08:29 PM, Charles Cossé
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<div dir="ltr"><span class="m_6375386105222821224gmail-im">On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at
12:13 PM, Daniel Pocock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@pocock.pro" target="_blank"></a><a class="m_6375386105222821224moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:daniel@pocock.pro" target="_blank">daniel@pocock.pro</a>></span>
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If you own an apartment in a building with elevators, you
have to pay<br>
service charges to the company that maintains it.<br>
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<div>With all due respect, where's the motivation for the poor
bugger who writes the free software? I believe that there is
still something missing from this equation.<br>
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The software developer would normally be paid by the hour to produce
free software for industrial use.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That just translates to "the company giving-away their own motivation / competetive advantage", does it not?<br></div><div>I'm all about free software, and paying to develop free software is a step in the right direction, but still ... the likelihood that the software would even benefit another elevator manufacturer seems unrealistic ... and thus cluttering-up fsf software archives with useless elevator software ... I know, there should be open standards for it ... but c'mon :)<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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That's what my company does, anyway, even if we don't make software
for elevators or embedded systems in general.<span class=""><br>
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<div dir="ltr">So it's okay to pay the company to maintain the
elevator but not the software developer? Where's the motivation
for the software developer? <br>
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... to maintain the elevator, and as part of that, the software. The
developer's motivation would be the paycheck. Payment by invoiceable
hours is a standard business model for free software developers.
Support contracts are too.<br>
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