On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote:
> Ok, I think I see your point. So, if Microsoft were to release all their code to
> public domaing aka open source, and just sell the support for it, and if they
>had made the same amount of money doing this, then they would be OK people? In
>other words it's not the gobs of money but what they sold? > > Sincerely,
> Jim Ryan
Not to speak for someone else, but you're getting close. It's not about money,
it's about
1) the poor quality of the product
2) the fact that the customer
a) can't see what's going on
b) can't control what's going on
c) is forced to buy upgrades when they say to
d) can't choose what other tools to use (because of secret file
formats)
e) can't write his own better/different tools (because of secret file
formats )
3) secret file formats
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:08:09 -0400 (EDT)
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> Subject: Re: Free software in business (was maddog speaks)
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> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote:
>
> > Derek,
> >
> > I'm still confused. How was sendmail and Apache originally created?
> > What do those people do for a living? How do they make their money?
>
> Sendmail was originally written by Eric Allman while he was a student At
> UCB. He now makes his living selling support for Sendmail Pro, which is
> the OSS sendmail software with an add-on GUI configuration tool.
>
> Apache, I don't know, but I suspect it has a similar story. I'd suspect
> that by now Ken Coar has already answered this...
>
> > I'm not being a wise guy here, I really want to understand how
> > software would work in a completly open source world. I mean if I'm a
> > programmer by trade and I want to feed my family how do I do it in
> > this model? Maybe I'm being overly simplistic but I like the concept,
> > I just don't fully get it.
>
> Sell support for your software, not the software. That's essentially what
> RedHat does, that's what Sendmail Inc. does, and that is what most other
> OSS vendors do.
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