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As you said Bryan, some is still paying. If you need a project done, and you
don't have the skills for it, you must pay someone else, or convince someone
to give their time. In addition to that, there is open source software that
pays.

Start up costs are also a lot lower. The only real cost is your time, there
is no specialized equipment needed, that costs money. This is not the same
for DiyBio, RepRap or other projects. It's more affordable to program in
your spare time. As a child, programming was the only avenue that I had,
because I had no money. I just had to go to the library, and read a book and
type on a computer.

There still needs to be a flow of money with more physical projects. You
need labor to build it, labor to maintain it, and constant material to feed
it. A single open sourced machine will not "put maximum competition and
minimum wages", because there are a billion different fields that will pick
up the displaced labor.

Tim Butram
http://www.worldsproject.org


On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Patrick Anderson wrote:
> > Do you agree this is already what we see in Free Software:
> > that wages are approaching zero (much work done gratis)?
>
> The wages aren't approaching zero; rather, programmers subsidize their
> own time with their own money. Some is still paying.
>
> - Bryan
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