Re: The rewards of contributing to the OpenSource Community

[Ignacio Valdes]

I lost about $10,000 on a 100% proprietary Windows and Mac based 
commercial software that I wrote in the early 1990's that actually 
sold tens of thousands of copies. It just didn't sell enough to cover 
the cost of development (around 50,000 copies to break even). This is 
not the fault of the proprietary software model any more than LRP was 
a casualty of FOSS model. The lesson I learned from my experience was 
that I needed to put 50% of the money in development and 50% in the 
marketing instead of 90% of the money into development. 

-- IV

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 17:30:35 -0600 
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Steven B. Tomlinson
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Pacific Telehealth and Technology Hui
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