Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 24, 2003 10:37 PM
"IBM isn't selling software, so there is no open source software business model involved. "
Exactly, that’s what I have been trying to say but no one seems to get.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
"Few others get paid a million times over for each hour that they work."
What company has that kind of margin? I have never seen any fiscal report with 99% profit-margin or something like that. The development costs are in most cases high but are divided by a large number of buyers.
Developing large software packages is very expensive. $150 for windows may seem expensive (or whatever it costs these days, I use MSDN subscription so I don't know) but each version of windows has several thousands of people working several years on it. Imagine to salary cost!
You seem to be saying that the first customer would have to pay the full cost and then no one else has to pay anything. That would mean the first customer would have to pay a bunch of _billion_ dollars for his copy. The reason why a copy of said software doesn’t cost a few billion dollars is because the development cost is spited among all the customers.
Well, Windows maybe a bad example since it's a monopoly (monopolies are of cause unacceptable under any circumstances), but I think you understand my point in the example.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 24, 2003 10:37 PMExactly, that’s what I have been trying to say but no one seems to get.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
"Few others get paid a million times over for each hour that they work."
What company has that kind of margin? I have never seen any fiscal report with 99% profit-margin or something like that. The development costs are in most cases high but are divided by a large number of buyers.
Developing large software packages is very expensive. $150 for windows may seem expensive (or whatever it costs these days, I use MSDN subscription so I don't know) but each version of windows has several thousands of people working several years on it. Imagine to salary cost!
You seem to be saying that the first customer would have to pay the full cost and then no one else has to pay anything. That would mean the first customer would have to pay a bunch of _billion_ dollars for his copy. The reason why a copy of said software doesn’t cost a few billion dollars is because the development cost is spited among all the customers.
Well, Windows maybe a bad example since it's a monopoly (monopolies are of cause unacceptable under any circumstances), but I think you understand my point in the example.
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