On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 23:35, Justin Findlay wrote: > The 1.7 cubic decimeters of human brain uploading Free Software Filosophy > truly contains no epsilon of simple Free Software Salience. This whole > philosophy for all but the prophets and psychics among us denies > convergence in calculations germane to any of the least of its actual > repercussions. Consider the megabytes of philosophy the FSF churns out > monthly. Why? > > Why do IBM and the like especially commit serious corporate capital to > GPL'd code? Not speaking of this hybrid half hearted closed/open stuff, > but to the real visceral Stallmanesque utopian ideal. Why? Do they > garner geek karma from GPL thinking software dudes? Why pour millions > explicitly into GPL'd stuff? What is the real cash flow in commercial > GNU/Linux development? Why refuse non-free software? What is free root > beer? Is it flowing? When will it stop? The market may prove us all > wrong.
I'll tell you why, because IBM, HP (which now includes the old Compaq and DEC), and others have never had any success selling their own proprietary software. They've never been any good at it. Name a piece of IBM or HP proprietary software, that they came up with, that they've been able to sell. AIX and HP-UX might be about all there is but how much of those is their original work? Yes, it's become The World (ala Free software) vs. Microsoft. Finally some healthy competition to boost our economy. Thanks, Mike, for your economic insights. I will now blame the recent recession completely on proprietary software ;) Bryan > > > Justin > just some insipid comments from an upstart green geek > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
