On 2/1/08, Vitaliy <spam@maksimov.org> wrote:
> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> > Personally I do not want to pay for anything software (even though it
> > only costs US$10) if I am just playing with something as a hobby. But
> > I am willing to pay for the hardware even though it costs US$100.
> > And for low cost software, often there are open source alternatives
> > which can do the job.
>
> Your logic doesn't make any sense.

If it is a hobby, it can be not logical. You like it and you spend time on it,
not for money, but for the perceived pleasure.

> So you wouldn't pay $10 for a program, even if it saves you 100 hours of
> effort, compared to an open-source alternative? If that is the case, why
> don't you build your own hardware, instead of buying it?
>

If it is for work, I am willing to convince my manager to buy the best tools.
If it is a hobby, I am willing to spend time to mess with it. Because I do not
play with these open source softwares at work, I am willing to play with
them at home. Messing with certain type of softwares are kind of my hobby. ;-)

Because I build hardware at work, I do not want to build hardware at home.
But I need some hardware to test the firmware/software, so I am willing
to buy it since I do not want to build it by myself.

Take note I am mainly a hardware engineer. So I am not interested to do
hardware at home.

Xiaofan
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