[CoLoCo] Can anyone help refute this?

[Ringo Kamens]

There's no self-interest in making free software that doesn't require
the service you need to make money.

I just want to clarify on this one. Is he saying that nobody would
program software for free unless the software required on a service
that made the developer money?
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On Nov 21, 2007 11:19 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
> This comment was on my blog about Linux and the iPhone
>
> "I've long argued that the service based revenue stream is at odds
> with making insanely great and easy to use software.
>
> There's no self-interest in making free software that doesn't require
> the service you need to make money.
>
> You'd be shooting yourself in your wallet."
>
> Somewhere I read a counter argument that basically said this is bull
> and in fact the opposite is the case. I have no idea where I read
> that. Does anyone have any sources?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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