Thread: The End is Coming: What do we do next?
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gerbick
2011-08-26 , 19:29
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Originally Posted by momcilo View Post
There are many unfinished FOSS software out there, but the reason you know is due to the open nature.

Quite opposite the basic idea of FOSS, beside having a free beer, benefiting form the others work and contributing, is to have a possibility to fix and enhance the software once the original vendor drops it.

It is about of protecting of your investment. Users invest in devices, developers invest time and knowledge.

People tend to forget that.
Until a few years ago, I'd say I was one of the people that was enjoying the free beer being poured by the people that was slaving over the projects and I was just a leech.

Now? I want to add to the projects where I can, and I do. The cool thing, if an idiot like me can see that as a way to finally give back - and enjoy giving back - then most others will in the end come to do the same.

Not all, but enough to keep thing going.
 

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