Chuck Simmons wrote:
>
> "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!
> --
> ... The times have been,
> That, when the brains were out,
> the man would die. ... Macbeth
> Chuck Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don't look at me I didn't say it!
I wish I could figure out how to reference the article I saved the file
of the Net center Tech Daily download but in opening it its strickly an
ASCII file and can find the url to the article.
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