Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 23, 2004 10:32 PM
I founded a cash-positive, multi-million dollar software product company. If you haven't done these things
You wouldn't be just a tad bit biased and dare I say defensive yourself would you? I know you'd dearly like to charge 20 billion more times for problems that were solved 30 years. THAT drives FOSS too. Once a problem has been solved once in software, the price to solve it again thereafter is limited to porting the solution forward.
FOSS isn't going away. Even lawyers aren't going to make it go away. I write something out of my own time and sweat and Mr. MultiMillions is going to tell me what I can do with (switching to language you can understand here) MY Intellectual Property? For the moment, stamping out CDs is damn near printing money. That is no end of fun I'm sure but do you REALLY think that can last short of extreme lawyering and corruption calesthenics?
This one is a hoot:
If you think you're going to compete on support with a First World cost structure with others who have a Second or Third World cost structure, you are smoking crack.
The proprietary vendors are falling all over themselves to send both development and support to places like India. What makes FOSS so damn special in this regard? Well there is that irrating realization that FOSS frees you from sending your money to foreign vendors and trusting all your data to them. NSAKEY anyone?
the free software cure to the MS monopoly, which the government should've fixed, is worse than the disease.
Given standardized data/comm protocols and commodity hardware, FOSS is inevitable. MS behaving like a raging bull in a china shop only accellerated it. You could 'outlaw' FOSS but there is nagging little detail called 'Free Speech' that a lot of people don't want to give up. Remember MY Intellectual Property?
I know you're all defensive and sore about this but you aren't entitled to the way things are staying the way you are. You're like an oxygen manufacturer getting all pissed off that people don't want to pay to breathe the free stuff.
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Re:Article completely misses the point.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 23, 2004 10:32 PMYou wouldn't be just a tad bit biased and dare I say defensive yourself would you? I know you'd dearly like to charge 20 billion more times for problems that were solved 30 years. THAT drives FOSS too. Once a problem has been solved once in software, the price to solve it again thereafter is limited to porting the solution forward.
FOSS isn't going away. Even lawyers aren't going to make it go away. I write something out of my own time and sweat and Mr. MultiMillions is going to tell me what I can do with (switching to language you can understand here) MY Intellectual Property? For the moment, stamping out CDs is damn near printing money. That is no end of fun I'm sure but do you REALLY think that can last short of extreme lawyering and corruption calesthenics?
This one is a hoot:
If you think you're going to compete on support with a First World cost structure with others who have a Second or Third World cost structure, you are smoking crack.
The proprietary vendors are falling all over themselves to send both development and support to places like India. What makes FOSS so damn special in this regard? Well there is that irrating realization that FOSS frees you from sending your money to foreign vendors and trusting all your data to them. NSAKEY anyone?
the free software cure to the MS monopoly, which the government should've fixed, is worse than the disease.
Given standardized data/comm protocols and commodity hardware, FOSS is inevitable. MS behaving like a raging bull in a china shop only accellerated it. You could 'outlaw' FOSS but there is nagging little detail called 'Free Speech' that a lot of people don't want to give up. Remember MY Intellectual Property?
I know you're all defensive and sore about this but you aren't entitled to the way things are staying the way you are. You're like an oxygen manufacturer getting all pissed off that people don't want to pay to breathe the free stuff.
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