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Re: on OSS and capitalism
At 03:32 PM 11/9/98 -0500, stan johnson wrote:
>My own personal views aside, Linux, and Open
>Source software in general, are making some serious corrections in pricing
>in the software industry that are a long time in coming.
What's a "correction in pricing?" Commercial operating systems are not,
by and large, overpriced. They take a lot of work to develop, and their
market share is so constrained by the Microsoft monopoly that they do
need to charge a reasonable amount per copy.
--Brett