From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:28:30 +0000 From: Christopher Browne Message-ID: References: <969913667.753136@news> Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 with open source licensing Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0efeacd8-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 - "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