Il mer, 2002-03-20 alle 11:07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra ha scritto:
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 09:58, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
Il mer, 2002-03-20 alle 01:56, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra ha scritto:
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At the end of the story, succesfull companies will be those who sell their competence, not program licenses. If you are not competent in (at least) using and supporting a free sofware application, your customer will turn to your competitors.
If there is free competition yes.
In the free software market free competition is the only available competition (as far as *they* let us work... SSCA, software patents, etc.)
When there isn't
Thus, in non-free software market
you actually hold hostage costumers untill they realize they are being victims.
I agree.
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It's always hard to start a market!
A market isn't started. It exists.
that's where he considers it unfair -- I couldn't demove him from that point of view :(
Lets try first to convince him that seldom developers earns money by selling software licensens; indeed, "The Lords of Money" (would you call them smart ass companies???) makes a lot of money and don't pay the developers the same way they get paid. Also, seldom developers becomes "Lords of Money" ;-)
Remember, I didn't say it explicitly, but it's quite obvious that this is a software house, of some sort. You must think like him to understand that: If we had made nessus [as GPL'ed software], other comeptitors would be able to make a lot of money without paying us.
What's the problem? They *are* able to make a lot of money with their competitors free software, too.
...unless you are a "Lord of Money" and consider competition a burden.
In this way of thinking, how can you argue properly?
Just pointing out that there is a *different* way of thinking. Someone love to call it "lateral thinking".
Ciao.