Developerfests vs Installfests

[Jason Spiro]

On 6/29/06, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> You guys are missing the point of how free software has come to be in
> the first place.  Without people volunteering to write code, there
> would be no Linux, no GCC, no GNU tools, no X.org, no PostgreSQL, no
> Apache, no Perl.
>
> There would be no Linux distributions, and there would be no TLUG.
>
> Admittedly, it all exists, now, and people that are incapable of
> imagining working on it "for free" can sponge off the efforts of all
> the volunteers.  Indeed, people that are unwilling to do anything
> without being paid can use the software without paying the people that
> were willing.
>
Many do non-developers do send bug reports or write documentation
(e.g. on webpages or on wikis) though.

Jason

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