Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 24, 2002 03:47 AM
I agree that Redhat _may_ be able to make it, so far they are loosing money but they can be successful. But why are they successful? Because most of their product (yes, it's the product that sells their service) are developed by free labour. But sooner or later this very same free labour must realize that they are just that, free labour for a capital strong company.
"why should you care? It means less cost for the consumer." It doesn't matter how companies make money, if less money is paid for it the value in these companies WILL decline. And you can't seriously mean that the same amount of money is paid for GPLs software one way or the other as commercial software.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 24, 2002 03:47 AM"why should you care? It means less cost for the consumer."
It doesn't matter how companies make money, if less money is paid for it the value in these companies WILL decline. And you can't seriously mean that the same amount of money is paid for GPLs software one way or the other as commercial software.
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