Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM]
From: David Blomber <dblomber@davelinux.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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> The difference is that I can charge a price for the word processor which
> gives me enough profit to build the spread sheet application.  If you are
> trying to do the same thing but your app is GPLed, you can forget about it.
> The market won't pay $300 for something they can download for free.
> -- 
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> Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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Yes but a word processor is not worth $300.  I am all for anyone making
a profit, but not when they hold the rest of us over a barrel and
railroad us with proprietary products that are vastly overpriced and
marginally better.  (and yes I put my money where my mouth is I actually
buy the distros and software I use and donate to GNU)

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