Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 21:15:31 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> To: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, "Norm Jacobowitz" <normj@aa.net>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Cooperative Funding of Development Message-ID: <000801bedb0b$54637540$021d85d1@youwant.to> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990730202201.040563c0@localhost>
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> Suppose Software Company A and Software Company B are competitors > in the market for Product X, but only Software Company B produces > Product Y. Software Company A comes up with a brilliant idea: why > not put a "bounty" on the development of an open source copy of > Product Y? Company B, which may have spent years developing the > concept behind Product Y and building a market for it, suddenly > has the legs kicked out from under it. Of course, this could only affect a company that was subsidizing the unprofitable development of one product with the proceeds of another. So it would really only act to level the playing field. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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