From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,afb4d45672b1e262 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:38:41 +0200 From: Georg Bauhaus Organization: future apps GmbH User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then how? References: <7NOdne-iYtWmIafZnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d@megapath.net> <292bf$443bb4e4$45491254$20549@KNOLOGY.NET> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <443bf77d$0$11063$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Apr 2006 20:37:49 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 3b1587f5.newsread4.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=S:=P9Ihe`BH@Z?dZ]MOidE X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3778 Date: 2006-04-11T20:37:49+02:00 List-Id: Justin Gombos wrote: > On 2006-04-11, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > >>On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:13:31 GMT, Justin Gombos wrote: >> >> >>>First of all, there are no conflicts of interest. >> >>Is it good to have no conflicts? > > > Absolutely. If the goal is quality software, conflicting interests > hinder quality, by definition. Which definition is that?