From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 20 17: 7:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA35137B42C for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:07:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA28974; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:00:03 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA3laqH4; Fri Apr 20 16:59:57 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14599; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:08:01 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200104210008.RAA14599@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux To: mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:07:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer), brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), dan@langille.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <15071.59246.855623.766901@guru.mired.org> from "Mike Meyer" at Apr 20, 2001 02:38:22 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > That only applies to companies that can't see beyond the "product" > > > model for revenue streams. > > > > Company A pays R&D costs out of pocket for one year to develop a > > product P, which it releases under GPL. > > > > Total developement costs are $1,000,000,000. > > > > The total market for product P is $10,000,000,000. > > Company A can't see byond the "product" model for revenue streams from > software. > > > Under no circumstances can the per unit revenue for company A > > _ever_ drop below $9.90 per unit, since it would then be > > impossible to recover R&D costs, and then it's off to bankruptcy > > court for company A. > > Yup. Their lack of vision is going to drive them bankrupt. How would a "visionary company" fund R&D, IYHO? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message