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You arrogant little myope

croberts Updated - 23rd Mar 2009

My grasp of the subject is none?

So something that isn't physical has no value? Is that the height of your intellectual argument?

Well let's think about that for a moment. Money isn't real either. Maybe every spring the government should electronically transfer a couple million into everyone's account.

Software isn't free. Yes you can theoretically write a program and make 1000 copies "at the click of a mouse" but in reality that isn't the case. All software is full of bugs, there are new feature requests, and new operating systems to support. This doesn't include technical documentation (which is usually crap in open source projects), and certification if the software is supposed to do something important like process control in a factory or refinery.

For someone to offer free software means that they 1) either swallow that cost directly or 2) some programmer somewhere has worked for free to donate his/her time.

Either way, there was money involved just as surely as Home Depot supplying pipes for free.

I don't know what you do for a living, but maybe your employer could find someone who would want to do it free for a year.... maybe a student or intern. It wonder if he's keep you around for those 12 months for no good reason?