Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 00:32:02 -0400 From: "Francisco Reyes" <freyes@inch.com> To: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, "freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Norm Jacobowitz" <normj@aa.net> Subject: Re: Cooperative Funding of Development Message-ID: <199907310431.AAA03378@arutam.inch.com>
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On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:27:36 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >I personally am concerned about this approach, because I see in it >some serious potential for abuse. > >Suppose Software Company A and Software Company B are competitors >in the market for Product X, but only Software Company B produces >Product Y. Software Company A comes up with a brilliant idea: why >not put a "bounty" on the development of an open source copy of >Product Y? Company B, which may have spent years developing the >concept behind Product Y and building a market for it, suddenly >has the legs kicked out from under it. Right now nothing stops any company from doing what you describe above. At least if they go through a site like cosource it would be publicly known that they are going this route. >I could see this as a nasty anticompetitive tactic. Even >Microsoft might use it. Not really. Microsoft likes better buying whole companies for this purpose (Fox Holdings, Hotmail, the 150M investment in Apple...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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