Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: business models [was patent stuff] | From | Gilad Ben-Yossef <> | Date | 28 May 2002 16:42:18 +0300 |
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On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:51, Paratimer@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 5/28/2002 3:55:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > gilad@benyossef.com writes: > > > > On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 01:24, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > > If the free software community is ever going to really compete with the > > > non-free software community, they simply have to come up with a better > > > business model than giving it away and trying to make money on support. > > > It's economics 101 - a free market will go to whomever can provide the > > > needed service most cheaply. With no barrier to entry, that means as > > .........^^^^^^^^ > > > soon as the price gets high enough, someone will resell the > > > product for > > ..^^^^^^^ > > > less. Which results in razor thin profits, if any at all. > > > > Software is not a "product" any more then a lawyer argument in a case is > > a "product" or an architect plan for a building is a "product". > > Actually, a lawyer's argument or an architects plan can certainly > be work products, and if I hire a lawyer to draw up a contract for > me or an architect to design a building for me, unless our agreements > say otherwise, I own the contract or the building plans. >
Of course you *can*, but do you (or anyone else) actually does this? AFAIK this is not a very common business model.
Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Code mangler, senior coffee drinker and VP SIGSEGV Qlusters ltd.
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