Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] | From | David Blomber <> | Date | 24 Jun 2003 18:51:03 +0900 |
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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. > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm > - 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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