31 Aug
2006
31 Aug
'06
5:01 p.m.
On 8/31/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
Besides he very convienetly forgets the value of everbody else's contribution - ideas, code, debugging, publicity.
I think he's complaining that FOSS essentially attacks the idea of software as a *product* which can be sold like a tangible product such as a car, stereo, etc. Businesses thriving on FOSS (Trolltech, RH, Suse, Novell, etc) essentially give away the product for free and charge for the service.
So if FOSS becomes THE mainstream way, the idea of *software product* in the earlier sense (write once, sell many times) will die.
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