Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:07:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), 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: <200104210008.RAA14599@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <15071.59246.855623.766901@guru.mired.org> from "Mike Meyer" at Apr 20, 2001 02:38:22 AM
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> > > 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
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