On Wednesday 02 November 2005 23:23, Stephen Cassady wrote:
> (1) Full Open Source would be bad: who would pay to keep Ben's beard well
> trimmed?

Plenty of people have very well paid jobs writing in free languages.

> b) Enterprise remains cost, but drops in price (I would keep paying for
> that)

Amen.

> c) the Split between Standard and Enterprise is handled the same way Red
> Hat handles their free and non-free code. They get paid for advanced
> versions, which keeps a development team, and those features move down into
> the "free" version.

Actually, RedHat AS lags behind Fedora Core.

> e) Full open source = slowed development of platform and the inability to

Not sure how you got the one from the other there. 

> do what they did between 5 and 6 (which was needed to save the product) -

So ? It's been done now.

-- 

Tom Chiverton 
Advanced ColdFusion Programmer

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