Paul Flint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Having been a member and gone to a bunch of meetings, the >> discussions are about finding funding/grants, hiring/keeping >> employees, contract negotiations, market size, etc. >> > But also about development of products. They also have a distinct bias > towards "Commercial" e.g. Monopoly products. Sad but true. > >> It's entirely appropriate for the State to fund VtSDA with some >> limited funds as it's an organization trying to increase the >> number of businesses that make their money by selling/making >> software. >> > More about selling. Can the development of Open Source software become a > cottage industry in Vermont with a state sanctioned closed source monopoly > product orientation that extends into state sponsored trade associations?
While Microsoft itself is a monopolist, it's hard to characterize all software that happens to be for the Microsoft platform, or is simply "commercial", as being "monopoly products". Besides, consider another company from the VTSDA front page: dealer.com, which – as far as I know, and I might be wrong – has a web-based product based on the Java platform (which we'll learn tomorrow night is now entirely Free and Open). :) -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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