Since open-source is related to the idea of working for free, I look at the computer industry and think: If these open-source guys were people who worked on their own free projects at night while being fed by corporations at day, now that many of them got laid off, I wonder if they will be so smug about it anymore? Since resources become scarce, will they start thinking about monetizing their work? I can strongly remember how web design got cheapened by all the teens who are willing to work for free.
something related happened to me very recently: i was approached by a client who wanted me to design a house for him/her. when i presented my fees, he/she said that was way more than he/she expected arguing he/she had been asking around in the area and some people where offering to do it for a quarter of what i was asking for.
i got really MAD then, not that i showed the client but, made me MAD thinking there's people offering really low quality work for really low price, and fooling people who has no knowledge of whats a FULL and/or a good ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT. Later i decided "common" people needs to be educated also by us ho want to charge our fees properly (for proper work) about what sspecifically is the spectrum of a full and god architectural project and what it is what the "others" are offering (in most cases some bad designed crap at a basic and/or conceptual level, and they call it "full project"). still makes me MAD to think most of the built work is done by pseudo-professionals who dare to label themselves as "Architects".
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Since open-source is related to the idea of working for free, I look at the computer industry and think: If these open-source guys were people who worked on their own free projects at night while being fed by corporations at day, now that many of them got laid off, I wonder if they will be so smug about it anymore? Since resources become scarce, will they start thinking about monetizing their work? I can strongly remember how web design got cheapened by all the teens who are willing to work for free.
well, working for money doesn't add value, neccessarily, now does it...
something related happened to me very recently: i was approached by a client who wanted me to design a house for him/her. when i presented my fees, he/she said that was way more than he/she expected arguing he/she had been asking around in the area and some people where offering to do it for a quarter of what i was asking for.
i got really MAD then, not that i showed the client but, made me MAD thinking there's people offering really low quality work for really low price, and fooling people who has no knowledge of whats a FULL and/or a good ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT. Later i decided "common" people needs to be educated also by us ho want to charge our fees properly (for proper work) about what sspecifically is the spectrum of a full and god architectural project and what it is what the "others" are offering (in most cases some bad designed crap at a basic and/or conceptual level, and they call it "full project"). still makes me MAD to think most of the built work is done by pseudo-professionals who dare to label themselves as "Architects".
madianito...your story is becoming commonplace in the corporate architectural world as well...
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