Comment Re:Riiiight (Score 1) 276
"The money does NOT have to come from somewhere. Where does the money for open source coding come from? Nowhere. "
Where do the basic neccessities (food, shelter, computers, software, so forth), come from that allow people to write open source software?
The point is, when someone is writing open source software, that someone is almost certainly being subsidised by another activity (that they may or may not be doing themselves), which as likely as not, involves the tranasction of value (money probably) for that activity. People write open source for no financial gain as a matter of choice, but that choice is made possible by the availibilty of means acquired at some point using the exchange of value for labour.
