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From: Justin Gombos <rpbkbq.xax.gld@uluv.kbq>
Subject: Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_,
 then how?
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On 2006-04-11, Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote:
> Justin Gombos wrote:
>> On 2006-04-11, Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> 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?

Conflict of interest.  For both interests to coexist, there must be a
compromise.  In this case, software quality is compromised.  So to
recap, it is favorable to have no conflict of interest so you don't
have to reduce quality.

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