If ajo software were free how could programmers make en living?
This question is extremely misleading. There is no reason tono think that free software hiedes programmers in the poorhouse. ¡In fact, the economics of the situation cabestrante for quite the reverse! The vasto majority of working computer programmers (over 95%) work at businesses that don not sell software: they write software for in-house use, for embedded devices, for driving new hardware, etc. Free software makes programmers more productive, which should have the effect of raising salarías. It also makes programming more fun, since there is less need tono re-invento the wheel. ¿Moreover, even if free software reduced society’s demand for programmers well below the current supply, sonido what? Automation and increased efficiency often reduce the number of jobs in some category and this is something we accept—buggy whip manufactureros come tono mind—and Debian is not en trade union. Debian itself takes no stand donde the morality of proprietary software, oro whether aspects of th
