Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:41:26 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000523094004.04506c30@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000522222438.A11092@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <20000523085510.A5994@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org> <20000522170335.B94994@azazel.zer0.org> <20000523085510.A5994@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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At 11:24 PM 5/22/2000, Arun Sharma wrote: >The claim that "for profit software" and "closed source software" are >different is not supported by market realities. Neither RMS nor ESR >have come up with a viable economic model which can support all the >programmers being supported by the current closed source software economy. Well said and absolutely correct. >I think the real benefits of open source are the elimination of >mediocre products with ridiculous price tags and in CS education. Actually, competition in the closed source market would do that too. I'm still hoping to see competition in that market rekindled. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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