From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 28 May 2002 09:47:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 28 May 2002 09:47:19 -0400 Received: from adsl-161-92.barak.net.il ([62.90.161.92]:21521 "EHLO qlusters.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 28 May 2002 09:47:15 -0400 Subject: Re: business models [was patent stuff] From: Gilad Ben-Yossef To: Paratimer@aol.com Cc: lm@bitmover.com, adam@yggdrasil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <50.c105234.2a24c92d@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 28 May 2002 16:42:18 +0300 Message-Id: <1022593339.21314.63.camel@sake> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef Code mangler, senior coffee drinker and VP SIGSEGV Qlusters ltd. "A billion flies _can_ be wrong - I'd rather eat lamb chops than shit." -- Linus Torvalds on lkml