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[Jason Clinton]

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 14:26, David Nicol wrote:
> you mean, like Red Hat and Novell do?

RedHat and Novell don't sell rebranded OSS apps for the Windows platform. The 
end-user software market for Windows is different from Linux in that there 
are plenty of suckers out there willing to shell out some $$ for 
pieces-of-software-at-a-time.

In the highly speculative scenario I proposed, one would be getting insane 
amounts of markup off each individual package -- selling them all separately 
in the same way that proprietary apps for Windows are sold. I'm sure there 
are plenty of people out there who would never know they could have gotten it 
for free.

However, the ethical measure of such an enterprise is less certain...

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