Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Christian Stieber
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:00

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In comp.os.linux.misc No Spam <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:

> For example (and this is a real example), someone can port GNU
> C to a specific processor, and then charge $15000 a copy for
> the compiler and tools. Not a problem. The CUSTOMER probably won't
> turn around and sell the compiler, or give it away, because that
> would disadvantage the customer.

No. He would turn around and sell it $1000 a piece, thereby pushing
the original porter out of buisness. One can't make money by selling
GPL software for a high price. Even the $1000 deal won't work for
long, since the buyer can sell it for $500, then $200, then $100
and so on.

This has nothing to do with competition --- the "customer" didn't have
to pay for porting the software. So the person who did the port
looses, since he had to invest money to do the port. There is a big
risk with that --- if he offers support for the software, and the
software is good, people might not want to buy the support, and just
copy the software for free instead.

Christian

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Christian Stieber        http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~stieber

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From: Christian Stieber <stieber@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/06
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