Can open source progress

Been reading and lisyening to lots of opensource podcasts and news.

It all sounds good.

I guess I still don't GET IT though.
Why is somebody going to SLAVE away and invent something really cool, and then just give it away?

Don't you think those guys who invented the idea of the spreadsheet would like to have had a little cash for fleashing out the idea?
Can money be made by support alone? Support that comes from users of your free software.

Here's another stumbling block - drivers.
Nvidia slaves away to create awesome graphics cards. If they release open source drivers, can someone reverse engineer the software driver and figure out what makes their hardware brilliant? If yes, why should they innovate? If they know it will be stolen by chinese ?

Intel is open sourcing lots of their hardware - sound , video graphics sets.

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Harry Myhre
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chicken door stop

Somebody gave me a cast iron chicken door stop. Many times as my dog Gigi
and I are going out the door, she RUNS DOWNSTAIRS and try to knock the damn
chicken over. She could easily give it a swat with her paw to knock it
over, but she prefers to give it a gentle push so she can watch it topple.
When she does that she knows it pisses me off. She must DELIGHT in seeing
the chicken topple and then me scold her.

Uncle Ken's Dog

My aunt bonnie did not allow dogs inside her house. Uncle Ken and aunt bonnie had a dog much like my dog Gigi. Uncle ken built a dog house for their dog in a window sill.

Their house had a basement. The window to the basement was actually below ground. So the window was down in a little hole. That's where the doghouse was.

My cousin karl slept downstairs. At night Karl would secretly open the window and let the dog in, so the dog could sleep inside.