Re: Publicly funded software development

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From: PILCH Hartmut
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 00:00

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Mark Evans <mark@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> writes:

>> What "market"?
>> OpenSource Software is not market-driven.

>Actually it is in the sense that support services are market driven.
>Whatever is charged will have to reflect a fair price, otherwise
>a customer can simply go elsewhere.

Support services provide OpenSource idealists a niche in which they can
live a human life in spite of the Market.  

--
Hartmut Pilch
http://www.a2e.de/phm/

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From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Subject: Re: Publicly funded software development
Date: 1998/10/11
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