From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@knuth.brownes.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 with open source licensing
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:28:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn8t17se.kgj.cbbrowne@knuth.brownes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <969913667.753136@news>
In our last episode (Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:14:13 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Alexander L said:
>I'm wondering something, how does a company earn $ with their software
>licensed under open source?
Generally by virtue of being in business to sell something else.
A main virtue of "open source" is _not_ the profitability of it, but
rather the cost savings that come from the fact that your company
built some "open source" software, and makes use of a much larger
body that others have built.
--
cbbrowne@hex.net - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/>
"I visited a company that was doing programming in BASIC in Panama
City and I asked them if they resented that the BASIC keywords were in
English. The answer was: ``Do you resent that the keywords for
control of actions in music are in Italian?''" -- Kent M Pitman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-26 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-26 9:14 [9fans] " Alexander L
2000-09-26 13:28 ` Christopher Browne [this message]
[not found] ` <alex-sci@freenet.co.nz>
2000-09-26 16:09 ` Tom Duff
2000-09-27 8:53 ` Christopher Browne
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