On 30 Jan 2002 at 17:39, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Theres a difference, how do you think a company would sustain growth > without making money?
How sad. You forget that free is muft and not mukt. Nobody stops me from burning debian CDs and selling them. Actually I did buy 3CD potato set from a college student because he went in lenghts to provide debian en masse. Somebody had to encourage him. Nobody stops you from making money like bundling a product and selling it. Distro's are doing it. If you feel adventurous, bundle a distro and sell a license for 5000/-. Problem is nobody will buy it. Not that you can't do that. Of course you can't steal it. intellectually at least.. > Some how I can't bring myself to belive that Open Source can fill up > stomachs. > And even if it did, then the magnitude to which it would have if it > had been closed source is too low. Frankly the main reason close source makes money is it keeps it source close. I work on a product and see guys working around it. Software quality is horrible at times and only reason nobody kicks them because it doesn't break. Close source make money is economics. Not software engineering. And about your other posts and you touting mac. OK you like mac, you use it. I like linux I use it.I wish I could afford a good mac. But I can't. But I find it particualrly silly to claim that computer has to work according to users need. That's just a dumb machine. It's you the user who make it work actually.. not some user friendly software. You know what you want and I know what I want. Better we stop the thread here. I am not going to convert.. Sorry but couldn't resist that. I know I should have replied in relevant post. Shridhar _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
