Posted by: David Turnbulll
on July 23, 2004 08:06 PM
Actually it is you who missed not only the point, but the boat as well.
It is known that the bulk of OSS development is funded by companies now a days. IBM, SUN, HP, Novell, Red Hat, Linspire, Xandros, Mandrake, etc. All are paying developers to work on and give away software int the OSS community as their full time job.
You are correct as their really is no basis to compare as this is a unique change, Then again Software is a unique concept. The selling of software is also unique. it takes time and effort to create, yet it can be reproduced trillions of times for nothing.
So if it costs a million dollars to develop some piece of software, and you sell a million copies of it, do you charge $199 a copy, or $2 a copy and double your money. hardware, has been commidtized, Software has been kept high due to artifical support by monopolies.
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Re:Article completely misses the point. NOT
Posted by: David Turnbulll on July 23, 2004 08:06 PMIt is known that the bulk of OSS development is funded by companies now a days. IBM, SUN, HP, Novell, Red Hat, Linspire, Xandros, Mandrake, etc. All are paying developers to work on and give away software int the OSS community as their full time job.
You are correct as their really is no basis to compare as this is a unique change, Then again Software is a unique concept. The selling of software is also unique. it takes time and effort to create, yet it can be reproduced trillions of times for nothing.
So if it costs a million dollars to develop some piece of software, and you sell a million copies of it, do you charge $199 a copy, or $2 a copy and double your money. hardware, has been commidtized, Software has been kept high due to artifical support by monopolies.
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