From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 23 8:43:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D70137B997 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 08:43:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23013; Tue, 23 May 2000 09:41:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000523094004.04506c30@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:41:26 -0600 To: Arun Sharma , Rahul Siddharthan From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000522222438.A11092@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <20000523085510.A5994@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org> <20000522170335.B94994@azazel.zer0.org> <20000523085510.A5994@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:24 PM 5/22/2000, Arun Sharma wrote: >The claim that "for profit software" and "closed source software" are >different is not supported by market realities. Neither RMS nor ESR >have come up with a viable economic model which can support all the >programmers being supported by the current closed source software economy. Well said and absolutely correct. >I think the real benefits of open source are the elimination of >mediocre products with ridiculous price tags and in CS education. Actually, competition in the closed source market would do that too. I'm still hoping to see competition in that market rekindled. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message