Re: Publicly funded software development

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From: Mark Evans
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:00

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Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> wrote:

> It's not impossible to make money selling open source software.  It's
> just impossible to make a *huge* profit on it.  No problem; the market
> can handle competition.

To make huge ammounts of money you need to control the market. That
is difficult with open source software. In the latter case another
organisation can provide systems at minimal markup, can provide
systems better tailored to a specific situation. 
(One of the biggest problems with Windows is that it is very
hard/impossible to tailor it to certain types of situation.)

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From: Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development
Date: 1998/10/14
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