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Started by David Rahfeldt
Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:48
Kids & Komputers :-)
Author: David Rahfeldt
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:48
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:48
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true.... but if a group funded development on a non profit basis and hired good people... then the costs are just the costs... there ar eno venture capitalists looking for 10 or 20 to one returns on their money (normal for software industry) and so, of course, you can produce more good software for reasonable prices... the BIGGEST cost of the industry is the fact that almost all of it runs on venture capital and that is EXPENSIVE as it is considered high risk industry... and rightly so... eliminate that and we have good stuff coming out at affordable prices to everyone and ongoing development at ONLY the cost of the salaries for the good programmers to do it... everyone wins... we could even give away the source code to all who want to modify it and be creative... with the understanding that ALL products derived from the source are under licensure of the foundation... but with relazed rules etc... think we could get anyone to fund that? david -- uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!29!David.Rahfeldt Internet: David.Rahfeldt@f29.n105.z1.fidonet.org
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