I Agree!!

There is room for both Open & Closed Software.

My personal choice is to pick open software first,
if I cannot find any open software that fits my needs I try to determine how long it would take to write it my self?

If I cannot find any open software or write it myself then I will
look at purchasing Closed software?

I agree Software devlopers need to be able to make a living too?
But I do not make a living developing software!!

In a year when there’s a dearth of worthy movies, “The Lord of the Rings; The Fellowship of the Ring” has emerged as a real contender for the Oscar. Hopefully this will be how things pan out!

Dave Winer has an interesting take on this issue.

According to him, you should give away software when you want competition, and keep it when you want to compete. I can understand where he’s coming from. Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of open source software (I’ve written a bit myself, including the software that runs this website…. it’ll be open soon :-). But at the same time, I’m a software developer that gets paid to do what I do, and I’d be rather upset if I couldn’t make a living doing it.

Well, the golf season is just about to begin. I wonder if Tiger can keep up his blistering pace?