And BIND is a niche product? BSD's TCP/IP? There was a big hiss and roar about something called the OSI stack at one stage. It was backed by all the major companies. TCP/IP got started first. The big companies never got OSI off to any sort of start.
So much for "a program's quality's proportional to it's price"! A program quality's also proportional to its existence, and Firefox has got the lead in innovation and security over MS IE. Wesley Parish On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:43, Chuck wrote: > 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] -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
