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Article #72354Re: How to charge for supporting free software?
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1992 09:58
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1992 09:58
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In article <kp6biiINNgfv@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
>I disagree, for the moment, on the value of getting functionality
>extended and or customization added. In some markets, the goal
>appears to be consistent, uniform behavior.
Your examples indicate that you *do* value customization. You start with a
heterogeneous collection of systems, and you want them to appear
consistent. Since the different vendors didn't make them consistent, you
might consider paying a consultant to customize some of them so they all
appear to be the same.
Any time you take a system that doesn't do quite what you want, and change
it so that it does, that's a customization.
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
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