Skeleton in Linux closet?
Frank Wiles
frank at wiles.org
Wed Mar 22 14:47:00 CST 2000
.------[ Bradley Miller wrote (2000/03/21 at 22:12:49) ]------
|
| At 07:13 PM 3/21/00 -0600, you wrote:
| >The author of this article has no understanding of the
| >open source movement or of linux.
|
| Yes, I agree to a certain point . . . but the point of the article was to
| say that WallStreet is having second thoughts about it and when they do the
| vehicle for getting the software to the masses is in jeprody. Yes, Linux
| is free . . . but who is going to pony up the $$ for ads to run against
| Microsoft. They ain't gonna switch just because it's here folks. If
| people (IT people) see no money being invested they'll wonder why and then
| turn tails on it. If XYZ product was vastly superior but didn't have any
| money to advertise even . . . would you want to place a lot of faith in it?
|
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I suggest that reading:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldron.html
As well as all of Eric S. Raymond's other writings, he gives many of
the economic reasons why free software has just as much chance as
closed source software.
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Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org>
http://frank.wiles.org
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