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Article #1084Re: Publicly funded software development (was: KDE v. Gnome)
From: David Kastrup
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 00:00
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seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes: > In article <m290ikshat.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, > David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote: > >Cygnus, The Open Group (X11), > >Netscape, > > Netscape actually makes money selling advertising and servers. I don't > believe they make much off of the open source. (On the other hand, maybe > they do sell enough "professional edition" software to count.) > > >Adaptec (new drivers from them for Linux), > > That's not making money from open source, that's making money from hardware, > and selling more of it by making the drivers open source. > > >Corel Computing (with its NetWinder products) > > ? Never heard of this. First, you have cut my list. Second, you have failed to prove that the above parties develop open source products only for idealistic purposes, but not for the ultimate goal of making profits. In fact, you have mentioned ways in which each of them plans to *make* a profit. The original stuff I challenged stated: >> On the other hand, open-source software is currently being created >> for idealistic purposes only. Or do you know of anyone producing it >> for profit? -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570 Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fax: +49-234-709-4209 Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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