The GPL / BSD cultural divide (was ProtoCiv: porting Freeciv to Python CANNED)

[Servé Lau]

"Gerry Quinn" <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote in message
news:a%uNb.5410$HR.11098 at news.indigo.ie...
> As somebody once said, the purpose of paying wages is not to motivate
> people to work.  It's to motivate them to come in on Monday mornings.
>
> Think of the boring bits as commercial software's secret weapon ;-)

I agree, most open source is not finished or crappy implemented. At some
point most people lose interest especially when it's not successful.

Yes, there are exceptions.