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Originally Posted by lexico
Why is writing a book any different than writing software? The latter is now mostly done for free (except the boring stuff), and I bet many (most?) writers make very good use of freeware...
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So untrue. "FREE" or "OPEN SOURCE" software is written be people with 1. a passion for programming and 2. a passion for the software they are contributing to. So, the "compensation" of contributing to an open source software project is the ability to use that software.
Software is not "mostly" free. There is software that you can "use" for free, but it is paid for by advertising $, do the developers are getting paid. Examples might be google, flicker, digg, gmail, yahoo mail, etc.
This is why you don't see alot of "line of business" (boring) software out there for free. I write LOB software, and get paid to do it with the sales/support revenue from that software.
I don't think writting a book so that you can enjoy it yourself is quite the same thing.
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