Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2026 from 2003/2/24
From: po-RNO
Quote:
supremo wrote:
Linux is also (and more than) a product of love and dedication, and it's free. I don't see your point as messenger for the MorphOS dev team (ok, I will not say company nor business).
There are big companies funding the development (for example, by letting their employees to develop on working time) of Linux in all areas. The OS may be free, but much of the development hasn't been free (only little over 10% of the kernel development was done for free, IIRC).
Nobody is paying for MorphOS development, so I think it's reasonable to get some income to cover at least some expenses by licenses. The development team is also very small and there's lots of work per developer, we don't have such a massive group of potential developers around as Linux or other mainstream systems have. We should be really grateful for those remaining developers who are spending their free time for us who love to use this kind of OS. It's a small price for what they are doing.
