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Mon, 01 Sep 2003
One-man shops vs open source
While documenting his switch to MacOS X, Steven Noels
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Entering the Switchers world, one has to become familiar again with the shareware software distribution model, since quite a few of the must-have tools are one-man-shop endeavors which require you to pony up some dollars to have a fully functional registered copy. So far, I subsidized Ranchero Software (NetNewsWire), BareBones (TextWrangler) and IndigoField (Proteus). I don't mind spending money of software, especially this class of tools. It's the kinda stuff you don't want to write yourself, that you however still expect to port any feature you might possibly dream of, and for which there exists no services-for-pay business model. Quite different from the open source business model, where infrastructure-class products are shipped for free, but the author expects to make some money on the services for installation, support, or customization.Are there any one-man shops out there making a living doing open source applications, or are these two ideas doomed to be in opposition? For me, open source is not about the cost of the software, it's about being able to customize it, and to keep it alive if the developer(s) decide to orphan it.
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