Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 10, 2002 03:01 AM
> Where do you get the initial capital to 1) Write Free Software?
Where did GCC, Linux, XFree86, Apache, Mozilla, and so on, come from?
Where does a manufacturing company find the funds to build its own plant control software? Why wouldn't that company consider spending only a fifth as much and share the development costs with other companies? Those sorts of shared development agreements were happening before Open Source came along. Open Source just makes them easier by providing a standardized legal framework.
For that matter, where do companies find the funds for developing Windows software? For years now, there has been talk about how investment funds had dried up for any company that might come into competition with Microsoft, and that basically means any company whose software runs on Windows.
Microsoft has succeeded in putting almost all the major developers of packaged Windows software out of business. Now, in order to continue to expand, I figure Microsoft will be going after custom developers like Peoplesoft.
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Re:Don't forget the business-model!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 10, 2002 03:01 AMWhere did GCC, Linux, XFree86, Apache, Mozilla, and so on, come from?
Where does a manufacturing company find the funds to build its own plant control software? Why wouldn't that company consider spending only a fifth as much and share the development costs with other companies? Those sorts of shared development agreements were happening before Open Source came along. Open Source just makes them easier by providing a standardized legal framework.
For that matter, where do companies find the funds for developing Windows software? For years now, there has been talk about how investment funds had dried up for any company that might come into competition with Microsoft, and that basically means any company whose software runs on Windows.
Microsoft has succeeded in putting almost all the major developers of packaged Windows software out of business. Now, in order to continue to expand, I figure Microsoft will be going after custom developers like Peoplesoft.
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