At 12:16 PM 4/26/2000, Eric Peters wrote:
>I really havn't been following this thread and I don't want to sound
>confrontational or anything but doesn't GPL make the market more service
>oriented rather than product oriented?
Among its stated purposes are to destroy markets and to hurt programmers'
livelihoods by reducing their wages to those of starving graduate students.
Richard Stallman states this explicitly in his essay, "The GNU Manifesto."
(Let me know if you need a URL for this; it's pretty easy to find on the
Web.)
>What I mean is RedHat etc don't really make their money off the product sales
>but of the support costs (inherintly why MS has problems with GPL - because
>they aren't setup to support customers and have always been product oriented)
Actually, Red Hat doesn't make money PERIOD. They are losing millions of
dollars and have stated on their form 10-Q (filed with the SEC; see Edgar) that
they do not know if they will EVER be profitable or even if their business model
is viable.
>I guess that's more of a rant - and I understand how you can associate the GPL
>as being anti product oriented - but then again would a service market be all
>that bad?
Again, the purposes of the GPL are much more destructive than this. This is
probably not the mailing list on which to post the information, but I've posted
material on this topic elsewhere and am in the process of compiling that material
into a series of Web pages.
--Brett Glass
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