From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 30 21:17:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEAFD14FB2 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 21:17:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 21:15:32 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Brett Glass" , "Norm Jacobowitz" , Subject: RE: Cooperative Funding of Development Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 21:15:31 -0700 Message-ID: <000801bedb0b$54637540$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990730202201.040563c0@localhost> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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