Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 02:38:22 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer), brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), dan@langille.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Message-ID: <15071.59246.855623.766901@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <200104192311.QAA22635@usr01.primenet.com> References: <15071.19757.648512.704094@guru.mired.org> <200104192311.QAA22635@usr01.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> types: > > 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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