On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:49 AM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:08 AM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxxx > >wrote: > > > > But with that said I feel very strongly that my wants as a commercial > user > > of Arch are not on par with the needs of the Arch community in the > manner, > > in fact I would say that my wants from a commercial perspective should be > > thrown out, I don't want my commercial use of Arch to taint the > community, > > it is one of my greatest fears as an Arch TU and contributor. > > no way, don't even think/worry about that. > > commercial needs are what fund a significant amount of "open > development"; your business problem is what really drives this > endeavor, and makes it worthwhile to sink (limited) time resources > toward. everyone else is freely gaining. nothing to be ashamed of in > even the slightest bit imo; most of us (guessing :-) who do open > development are likely employed and fed by doing other, "less open", > development. > > if everything was 100% free software/labor there wouldn't be much > porridge for all the developer bears out there, and this bear would be > in a more lucrative line of work. starving developers don't generate > much software to play with :-) > > C Anthony > Ha! I agree, but with that said, the wants of the one sure as heck don't outweigh the needs of the open source!!
