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Hostile takeovers by the United Way?
(For those unfamiliar, the United Way gathers funds for charitable organizations.)

You wrote:
What you describe is capitolism, nothing wrong with it. If you can get your product cheaper but it puts another out of work that's the way the ball bounces.

What we're talking about is unpaid labor intended to undercut paid labor. This is not capitalism; it's a hostile act.
The main use of volunteer labor is for the benefit of charities, but if a normal charity advertised its goal as removing people from paid jobs, do you think volunteers would surge through the doors?


You also wrote:
But where one job is lost due to a proprietary software company not being able to compete another job is created in the in house developement of the open source software to make it work for the business in question.

When you write that, you're implying that open source software requires more staff than proprietary software to do the same job. Otherwise the move from proprietary to free open source wouldn't require hiring. Very few additional hires would be needed to make the change from proprietary software a loser, particularly if the jobs require exceptional skills. Also, management prefers buying products to hiring staff, as you've probably noticed.

In short, if your argument were correct, free open source software would rarely be selected, and, if it were used, management might easily decide to replace it with outsourcing, offshoring, or Microsoft products.
Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 01/15/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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