From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 7 18: 2:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC3C15850 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:02:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id SAA29796; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:02:12 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id SAA04674; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:02:11 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com [198.206.184.237]) by omni.xylan.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (Xylan engr [SPOOL])) with ESMTP id SAA26972; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 18:01:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38769B67.45361897@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2000 19:05:27 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Schwenk Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: license (no longer Re: uptimes, Woo Hoo) References: <200001071413.JAA17543@blackhelicopters.org> <3875F6CA.DBCAFA8B@math.udel.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Schwenk wrote: > > I guess I just don't understand why any software business would want to have anything > to do with true Open Source software. Sure, you could charge for support and service, > but, at least in the home/personal market, nobody likes to pay for that stuff. I can > see corporate licensees buying support, however. True Open Source software seems to > make it impossible to make big money, which companies like to do. > > Don't get me wrong. I LOVE free software. I use it all the time. I just don't see > how ALL software can be free and we can still have a software industry. I'm a dope, > I guess. For many companies, the software is simply an enabler, not the product. The product may be the hardware the software runs on, a service the software enables you to use, or something else. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message