My point is that OSS will never be more than a small niche compared to commercial software. Most people believe that a program's quality is proportional to it's price. In their minds, free = piece of crap, expensive equals great software with great support. I'm not saying this is true, but it's what most people think. People for some strange reason *want* to pay for software when equal or superior software is available for free.
OSS has been available for years to fill many needs and yet it never garners more than 1-2% of the market. Firefox, Thunderbird, OOo, Linux, and others are perfect examples. They are all superior to their commercial counterparts but are no where near replacing them in the market. Alex wrote: > OSS has already replaced a number of commercial elements. Firefox for > browsing, Thunderbird for email, OpenOffice for (guess what here) in my > business, Linux for a file server ( soon the desktop). I don't get your > commment. :-) > > Cheers, > Alex Janssen > > Chuck wrote: > >> Anthony Long wrote: >> >> >>> I'm curious to know what people think about this article? >>> >>> http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4834&t=technology >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anthony >>> >> >> >> There are four things in life that are guaranteed... >> >> 1) You will be born >> 2) You will die >> 3) You will pay taxes >> 4) OSS will _NEVER_ replace commercial software >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
