Comments on software

www.davidwatson.org: Dave Winer on Free Software
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coercing programmers to work for $100,000 freedom or slavery? Very little really usable software has come from people who are willing to work for six figures either, Dave. Case in point? How much of the web qualifies as usable software? How much of the web has paid programmers? Are these numbers proportional? Further, is Adobe Photoshop usable software? Why is it that nobody I know has mastered such an application without a training course? In the end, why pay six figures for BEA WebLogic when I can get JBoss for free and have roughly the same problems to deal with and similar costs to fix them?