10 Oct
2006
10 Oct
'06
3:32 p.m.
On Tuesday 10 October 2006 18:48, jtd wrote:
Correction before others start beating me up.
In my loong exposure in this industry most of the software companies were always closed software companies and most
Closed as in not following the foss development model. Infact most were selling packaged software (Plant maintanence, accounting, payroll, MM, bank branch automation, ticketing, etc) at ridiculously low prices. The first thing that the customer would ask "will u customize" if u said no u were out. If u said yes the haggling over customisation would begin. In every case i knew of, the source would be right there on the disk and a back up on umpteen floppies for good measure.
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Rgds
JTD