I was chatting with my friend and he was trying to tell me how great open source is...and as everybody expects. He also wanted everything to be open source... When I started thinking about open source, I can see many open source things like Linux. They are doing really great. So why can’t we have everything open source???
Let’s look at this from a company which is against or not supporting open source. There argument is, we work on something. We are applying our brains to invent something. After working so hard on it if we make it open source, how can we get return on it. Most of people in this world work with some motive which is having dependencies on there some high priority motives at that point of time. So for most of people, they work not because their work is there at most priority in there life but to fulfill there personal dreams. That’s right because work is not the only thing in life. Somebody works for to kill time or to earn money...there are different reasons. The point I want to make is He works to get something. So, if we make his work open source then how he will be paid...So how the technology will develop. So you need to pay people to develop something. If saints would have been rich or rich could have been saints then they could have employed people to develop technologies for human kind.(so altruistic!!!) But the truth is saints and rich people form mutually exclusive sets...(there can be exceptions and I will love if somebody can find such).Hence, all the investors in this world put money to get money (including minute players like you and me who invest money in shares) . Investors don’t care about how beautiful technology is. Its Business for them. They want their money to grow. That’s the vicious cycle.
Investors employ some smart brains, pay them to develop something. Make them feel they are doing THE BEST THING in the world. And earn money...more money...On the other side there exists some researchers who do the things to make world a better place, they are also human...They also need something to eat and live. They can’t also help it. So, I feel nobody can work fulltime on open source. The people who can invest some time in development as hobby will keep on developing something. But its tough for it to become mainstream....I personally like open source and I wish that GOD will give me all money to Employ people to altruistic stuff mentioned above. :)
Let’s look at this from a company which is against or not supporting open source. There argument is, we work on something. We are applying our brains to invent something. After working so hard on it if we make it open source, how can we get return on it. Most of people in this world work with some motive which is having dependencies on there some high priority motives at that point of time. So for most of people, they work not because their work is there at most priority in there life but to fulfill there personal dreams. That’s right because work is not the only thing in life. Somebody works for to kill time or to earn money...there are different reasons. The point I want to make is He works to get something. So, if we make his work open source then how he will be paid...So how the technology will develop. So you need to pay people to develop something. If saints would have been rich or rich could have been saints then they could have employed people to develop technologies for human kind.(so altruistic!!!) But the truth is saints and rich people form mutually exclusive sets...(there can be exceptions and I will love if somebody can find such).Hence, all the investors in this world put money to get money (including minute players like you and me who invest money in shares) . Investors don’t care about how beautiful technology is. Its Business for them. They want their money to grow. That’s the vicious cycle.
Investors employ some smart brains, pay them to develop something. Make them feel they are doing THE BEST THING in the world. And earn money...more money...On the other side there exists some researchers who do the things to make world a better place, they are also human...They also need something to eat and live. They can’t also help it. So, I feel nobody can work fulltime on open source. The people who can invest some time in development as hobby will keep on developing something. But its tough for it to become mainstream....I personally like open source and I wish that GOD will give me all money to Employ people to altruistic stuff mentioned above. :)
