On Tuesday 25 January 2005 00:35, Ian Lynch wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 04:04, Christian Einfeldt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The thing that I found most amazing about this article is that > > MS is talking openly about giving away...FREE SOFTWARE...to > > drive revenue to other software. The next time that someone > > asks you, how can open source companies make money from free > > software, you can cite both Internet Explorer and Elixir as > > examples of the market leader giving away free software. > > Just to be pedantic they are giving away software for free, not > giving away free software. Their software is anything but free as > in freedom.
+1 That is kinda the point I was making. It is also why I tend to call open source by these terms: software libre; or FLOSS; or FOSS; or free open source software; but I only use the term "free software" when speaking with GNUsters. I do have a problem with the English lang phrase "free software" for just that reason. > > In other words, Microsoft is moving into a more narrow market > > (CRM) smaller in volume, but with larger gross margins in the > > long run, after OOo is done decimating MSO's lower tier > > customers. > > But that in turn will decimate the margins in CRM. +1 And as Jack Messman said in his interview with us, the water level of FLOSS is always rising. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
