Re: Free Software Maintenance Bazaar (was: Publicly funded software development)

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From: john
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 00:00

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I wrote:
> What is the market value of a copy of emacs?

Axel Boldt writes:
> I don't know the definition of "market value"...

"Market value" is the highest price you could reasonably expect to sell
it for or the lowest price you could reasonably expect to have to pay for
it.

> ...but if emacs could not be downloaded freely from the net,...

But it can.

> ...I think you could probably sell it for about $100, looking at
> comparable products.

Comparable products are irrelevant, since the actual price of the thing is
self can be readily determined.

Zero.

> But by that standard, a liter of oxygen would also command a pretty
> high market value... :-)

Fortunately, that standard is not the one the IRS uses.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

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From: john@dhh.gt.org
Subject: Re: Free Software Maintenance Bazaar (was: Publicly funded software development)
Date: 1998/11/20
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