Russell McOrmond wrote:
>
> Wall Street is simply yet another government subsidized gambling
> establishment - a place where it is expected to get 'something for
> nothing'. What Microsoft (and I would say most propriatary
> licence-sellers) is doing is considered good business by their standards:
> put the least value into a product and try to extract the greatest amount
> of money out of your customers.
You can only get paid what the market can pay you. That is the system
that works, anything else as we have seen in China or Soviet union is
doomed to fail. Arnold Shwarznneger gets paid 25 mill $ coz that's what
the market can pay him as Sharukh Khan in India gets paid Rs. 6 Crores
(1 Crore = 10 million) -- the whole India goes to see his films -- we
are 900 million people.
Most of the software we see in open source world is written by brilliant
programmers in Universities. What happens to them when they graduate,
they no longer have the resources to produce the kind of work they were
doing. For this you need money. That's where your >>gambling
establishment<< comes into play as does VCs or angel investors.
Arup
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