On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote: > If software were free how could the employees of the software company be > paid to begin with?
Tech support? Free downloads, but boxed packages that you pay for if you choose? Heh...sound familiar? Just a thought... > > I'm sorry, but by this logic you could say, "Instead of spending all that > money on a down payment and mortgage, think of all the money I could save > by just moving into the first house I see." You could say that, but it wouldn't really be analogous. > > doug > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): > > >True, but there is also another side to the story. What about the end > >users, who > >will _save_ money by using free software. Corporations spend massive > >amounts of > >money on buggy, insecure software. If the software was free, all this money > >could be saved, and the employees could be paid more (or more could be > hired). > > > >I am not rabidly against charging for software, but in many cases free > >software > >can make a lot of sense. If a company chose to write a decent OS (BeOS > >and OS/2 > >come to mind) with decent software, I would consider using them. Microsoft on > >the other hand does not compete on quality, it competes on marketing and > >lock-in. > > > >On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:57:25 +0900, Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On a day-to-day basis, if you want to have a working economy, where > >> people can support themselves then, for sure, it makes more sense to > >> compensate labor and effort which can be attributed. In other words, pay > >> the programmers who create programs. > >> > >> The compensation to society for providing the environment is paid in taxes. > >> > >> doug > >> > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): > >> > >> >Doug Lerner wrote: > >> >> There is a huge difference between an idea and an instance of > putting the > >> >> idea to use. > >> > > >> >And which is more valuable, or more worthy of being compensated (for)? > >> > > >> >Randy Kramer > >> > > >> >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >> >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > >-- > >Sridhar Dhanapalan > > > >"I've always liked penguins, and when I was in Canberra a few years ago > >we went > >to the local zoo with Andrew Tridgell (of samba fame). There they had a > >ferocious penguin that bit me and infected me with a little known disease > >called > >penguinitis. Penguinitis makes you stay awake at nights just thinking about > >penguins and feeling great love towards them. So when Linux needed a > >mascot, the > >first thing that came into my mind was this picture of the majestic > >penguin, and > >the rest is history." -- Linus Torvalds > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > >
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