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 are an armchair quarterback"
And the article's author appears to run a successful consulting company that only works with Open Source software. So what?
Having success in business does not always require following the same paths that everyone else has taken. I won't hold the fact that you can't seem to understand what so many really smart people intuitively grasp about Open Source against your school MIT.
Software development in the Open Source space may not be directly monitized (i.e. proprietry commercial software, per seat licenses, etc.), but does NOT mean that the customer is not still paying for the value they recieve. In fact, like the article pointed out, most people who are looking to solve a problem are sharing costs to develop the solution *instead* of paying a vendor.
You are certainly a good troll. Microsoft and SCO must be getting more concerned to pay an astro-turfer like you to get out here where the grass roots are.
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Re:Article completely misses the point.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 23, 2004 10:32 PMAnd the article's author appears to run a successful consulting company that only works with Open Source software. So what?
Having success in business does not always require following the same paths that everyone else has taken. I won't hold the fact that you can't seem to understand what so many really smart people intuitively grasp about Open Source against your school MIT.
Software development in the Open Source space may not be directly monitized (i.e. proprietry commercial software, per seat licenses, etc.), but does NOT mean that the customer is not still paying for the value they recieve. In fact, like the article pointed out, most people who are looking to solve a problem are sharing costs to develop the solution *instead* of paying a vendor.
You are certainly a good troll. Microsoft and SCO must be getting more concerned to pay an astro-turfer like you to get out here where the grass roots are.
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