Re: business models [was patent stuff]

[Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>]

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:51, Paratimer@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/28/2002 3:55:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> gilad@benyossef.com writes:
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 01:24, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > 
> > > If the free software community is ever going to really compete with the
> > > non-free software community, they simply have to come up with a better
> > > business model than giving it away and trying to make money on support.
> > > It's economics 101 - a free market will go to whomever can provide the
> > > needed service most cheaply.  With no barrier to entry, that means as
> > .........^^^^^^^^
> > > soon as the price gets high enough, someone will resell the 
> > > product for
> > ..^^^^^^^
> > > less.  Which results in razor thin profits, if any at all.
> > 
> > Software is not a "product" any more then a lawyer argument in a case is
> > a "product" or an architect plan for a building is a "product".  
> 
> Actually, a lawyer's argument or an architects plan can certainly
> be work products, and if I hire a lawyer to draw up a contract for
> me or an architect to design a building for me, unless our agreements
> say otherwise, I own the contract or the building plans.
> 

Of course you *can*, but do you (or anyone else) actually does this?
AFAIK this is not a very common business model. 

Gilad.
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