Question for you "profit" folks: how many of you have made significant $$ selling VFP? Or selling Windows? Or .Net?
Selling (reselling license for) VFP or a Windows OS, not a penny. Licensing the solutions I created based Windows & VFP, plenty enough since I released my first VFP commercial app in 2001. Well, maybe not plenty enough, but quite significant. Although I can distribute VFP solutions and databases free of additional M$ fees on machines already running Windows OS, the use of VFP to produce a viable solution in the market enables/entitles me to charge a fee for my Value Added piece. The value for the end user has little to do with the application I select to develop a needed solution. Hell, if I could have pulled this off in Access I doubt any of my clients could really care, assuming it was cost them no more and was as fast & stable under load that is <g>... Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Leafe > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [NF] MICROSOFT WINDOWS OUSTED AT CALIFORNIA SCHOOL > DISTRICT|SearchOpenSource.com > > > On Mar 6, 2007, at 6:55 PM, MB Software Solutions wrote: > > > LOL!!! Good example, Stephen! So many times the zealots seem to give > > off this kind of "air." Kind of like Mac vs PC guy commercials: some > > would see the Mac guy as cool/hip, whereas others might see him as > > arrogant. Some might see the PC guy as nerdy/complex, whereas others > > see him as professional/business-like. > > Question for you "profit" folks: how many of you have made > significant $$ selling VFP? Or selling Windows? Or .Net? > > Now how many people have made significant $$ selling solutions to > problems written in VFP? Or running on Windows? Or written/running > in .Net? > > Google provides the best search services in the world for > free. They > can't possibly succeed unless they charge for each search!! Oh, wait > - they found a way to capitalize on all those millions of eyeballs > flocking to their service. There goes another simple-minded theory > down the tubes. > > -- Ed Leafe > -- http://leafe.com > -- http://dabodev.com > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
