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The Simple Economics of Open Source

Marc Spitzer marc at oscar.noc.cv.net
Tue Apr 25 10:32:02 EDT 2000 
In article <vndya62ykbi.fsf at camelot-new.ccs.neu.edu>, Justin Sheehy wrote:
>Raffael Cavallaro <raffael at mediaone.net> writes:
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>> Fact is, only commodity items, that are known to many programmers, are 
>> open sourced. If there were sufficient demand to support a closed source 
>> business, then it would have happened that way. The proof of this is the 
>> BSDs, which would allow a closed source, proprietary fork at any time. 
>> Hasn't happened 'cause there's no demand for such a product.
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>You mean like BSD/OS, from BSDI?  
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>It happened 9 years ago, and they've been selling it ever since.
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>Interesting "proof" you have there.
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>-Justin
>
this sounds like a religious argument, be carful when you 
show evadence that contradicts the 1 true faith. 

marc

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