At 10:55 AM 7/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: >The move to free software will no more eliminate commercial software >companies than publishing laws eliminates law firms or medical texts >eliminates hospitals. Practical software companies will adopt free >software and earn their living by implementing it for people. The threat >we here from M$ and the RIAA, that without closed source and copyrights >there would
Your comment about software companies making money by "implementing it for people" brings up a good point. I don't think that a model based on developers doing nothing but contract work is going to work, either for them or the consumer. Let's say I am a potential client and I need some software. A word processor would be a good example of this. So I get an open source developer and contract them to build the software. Under this model the client bears the entire cost of the development because the cost cannot be spread across other clients (this is how mass-market commercial software works). How do we make this kind of model affordable to the client? --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology <http://www.puryear-it.com> Providing expertise in the management, integration, and security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications.
