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Having a large hoard of money (no matter how long it took you to hoard it), and to a lesser extent, a large income stream (not from owned annuitities - that goes to the hoard category), makes you a target for robbers and burglars, whether armed with actual guns or just lawyers. Lawyers can turn into guns (cops, contract killers) if you refuse and resist hard and long enough. Linux should charge a bounty for lawsuit-protection. Actually they should open up a full for-profit liability premium-warranty program. Then M$ can't run them bankrupt because then they actually might have enough money to pay the lawyers for long in-court cases.
Open source software is supposed to evade lawsuits from the great limitation on profit-making from the free-distribution nature, massive reporoduction, and decentralized authorship. But as corproations and non-power users need product-security and product-support (laywer and labor intensive outside of the core software development) and 'peace of mind', they usually can't provide that and have to run a for-profit business model to provide that because lawyers and phone reps are money hungry (salaries) and that makes you a theft (lawsuit) target. - Posted by: GreatInca Posted on: 11/13/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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