"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." wrote:
>
> Chuck Simmons wrote:
> >
> > Fabian Guisset wrote:
> > >
> > > Gervase Markham wrote:
> > >
> > > > You are, of course, referring to Ben Bucksch, the owner of Beonex, whose
> > > > business it is making improvements to Mozilla for money, and supporting
> > > > the resultant software.
> > > >
> > > >Gerv
> > > >
> > >
> > > Strange, that the word "money" rhymes with "Ben Bucksch" in Mozilla.
> > > When I read this post I directly thought of him too. I don't think
> > > anyone else does that. Not that it bothers me, but as Jason said, it
> > > "doesn't speak well for the Mozilla community at large, which surely is
> > > an open source community effort based on common feedback, agreement, and
> > > an idealistic conception of software development rather than individual,
> > > and capitalistic, "rogue" membership".
> > >
> > > Fabian.
> >
> > Uh, where have you been. Open source software is making money for people
> > and companies. Look at Linux. That happens to be a good thing. A major
> > point when the Mozilla licenses were pounded out in some groups here
> > some three years ago was leaving room for making money.
> >
> > If Ben makes a buck here and there on this and he follows the license
> > then more power to him. He's doing what was intended in the first place.
> >
> > Open source is not anticapitalistic. It is antimonopolistic. It levels
> > the playing field and if you can find a good business model, you have
> > caught on to what it means.
> >
> > Chuck
>
> Its odd that you answered that way. In that its dajevu. I read an
> article referenced in Netcenter Tech Daily which I subscribe to.
>
> Your response is the exact oposite of what two big wheels from Microsoft
> said. Basically they said its absolutely impossible for any software
> created by open source to make "any" money.
>
> "?Subject: MS exec: Open-source approach is flawed/Hacker exploits
> Microsoft server flaw/Can Ricochet maker bounce back"
FUD!
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the man would die. ... Macbeth
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