Ok, I think it’s time for a little reality check: It could be when you fill up your car with gas, or when you buy groceries. You may in fact be paying a Linux developer more often than you think. They get paid because their work facilitates the sales of some non software or even non computer related related product in the same way that IBM manages to sells more servers due to Linux. They support Linux to sell more servers and consulting services.Īnother thing, there are more programmers working in non software related industry doing in house development, than there are in software houses like Microsoft.
IBM would be a good example of such a company.
Most of the Linux developers work in large companies who benefit financially from the success of Linux, and thus are prepared to pay salaries to Linux developers. There might be some occational people that contributes code for free, but that could be seen as a cost for marketing for their consulting skills. Microsoft pays its developers six figures, with benefits that leave the rest of the industry (and truth be told, most other industries) behind, and they have never ‘downsized’ their workers to save a little money. Unlike companies whose business model involves convincing their end users that their giving up their own time and skill to develop for a corporate product is their idea, Microsoft pays its developers six figures, with benefits that leave the rest of the industry (and truth be told, most other industries) behind, and they have never ‘downsized’ their workers to save a little money.
Second, that sort of price is silly for an operating system using a legitimate development model. Debian Vista, Gentoo Vista, Red Hat Vista, and Vistbuntu would have come out before the beta finished. I wonder with how quickly the activation has been cracked, and made it very easy to do so, if all the time and money and resources Microsoft employed to prevent piracy, if they would have removed the proctection and avtication and sold Vista Ultimate (as the only Vista retail version) for $49.95 each.įirst, without protection, Vista would have been almost immediately incorporated into Linux.
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