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OSS is good in many markets
even commercial, and closed is good in a limited sphere of business/home use. After a fashion, one has to find the implementation of one or the other, where it fits. Sometimes, even changing the market to make it fit at the time. At this time, OSS is supported by a number of factors, the internet, widely available tools that have been crafted and honed over the years to support it, a pool of eduacated developers born and teeth cut on technology, a sense of community if not political or religious like affiliation, . . . a few commercial 800 pound gurillas willing to bring it to the forefront by employing it, embracing and extending it into their commercial landscapes, partnerships and seedings.
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I hope Arras makes it  nucrash | 01/15/07
It would be nice if they would move to Linux/PostgreSQL though. I would not  DonnieBoy | 01/15/07
Since it's open souce...  BregS | 01/15/07
Personally, I don't have a use for this softwre, but, someone might. Though  DonnieBoy | 01/15/07
if you don't have use of it, why...  BregS | 01/16/07
I imagine there are better projects out there that will also run on Linux.  DonnieBoy | 01/16/07
Open source is the superior model  Chad_z | 01/15/07
Just to understand your point,  BregS | 01/15/07
OSS is good in many markets  Boot_Agnostic | 01/15/07
Yes, customers will pay for open source, and they like the guarantees it  DonnieBoy | 01/15/07
Very few I have seen.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/15/07
So, how do you explain all of the revenue for RedHat, MySQL, SleepyCat, etc  DonnieBoy | 01/15/07
But none of them  BregS | 01/15/07
RedHat and MySQL are making good money. RedHat in particular has been on a  DonnieBoy | 01/15/07
Same can be said for closed source companies  Richard Flude | 01/15/07
spoken like a true zealot  mdsmedia | 01/16/07
Sorry, not any developers I know.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/15/07
Obviously you are an unbiased sample representative of our population (nt)  CobraA1 | 01/15/07
There are a lot of very sustainable open source business models out there.  DonnieBoy | 01/15/07
Please name a few models  oldsysprog | 01/16/07
It really does not matter how or where the money comes from to pay the  DonnieBoy | 01/16/07
What are you afraid of No_Ax?  mdsmedia | 01/16/07
Got to be a good thing  Richard Flude | 01/15/07
Waht about low cost software?  BregS | 01/15/07
Not every case is the same. In your case, you might be able to keep part of  DonnieBoy | 01/15/07
You defined open source...  Anton Philidor | 01/16/07
The average Linux programmer makes a lot more thant the average Windows  DonnieBoy | 01/16/07
Unfortunately,  BregS | 01/16/07
You might be able to open source base functionality, but charge for  DonnieBoy | 01/16/07
Is you software suitable?  Richard Flude | 01/15/07
Just tell me how to...  BregS | 01/15/07
Did you ever consider that if it was open source, you might be able to do  DonnieBoy | 01/15/07
is it a joke?  BregS | 01/16/07
Business models? Which one?  BregS | 01/15/07
Have you ever heard of RedHat and MySQL??? They are both  DonnieBoy | 01/15/07
and what do they got?  BregS | 01/16/07
So are you denying that RedHat and MySQL make good money????  DonnieBoy | 01/16/07
without knowing your software...  mdsmedia | 01/16/07
Please be nice...  BregS | 01/16/07
The important points are in the last paragraphs.  Anton Philidor | 01/16/07
Unfortunately...  BregS | 01/16/07
Make a company to provide same service  Boot_Agnostic | 01/16/07
This is not only unethical...  BregS | 01/16/07

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