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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Subject: Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then how? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.14.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de Organization: cbb software GmbH References: <7NOdne-iYtWmIafZnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d@megapath.net> <292bf$443bb4e4$45491254$20549@KNOLOGY.NET> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:22:52 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Apr 2006 18:22:40 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 3bea38a7.newsread2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=H:3R:6C2M[52j7j^L?86D8Q5U85hF6f;4jW\KbG]kaM8AV6U:Z=fE=?RDa[O\3Y[QNWkF8 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3776 Date: 2006-04-11T18:22:40+02:00 List-Id: 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? I would say, what we have now is rather a lack of [technological] conflicts and true competition. Technical superiority is long not an issue. [...] I agree with Randy. There are two fundamental problems neither model actually responds: 1. Rewarding true inventors (rather than monopolists, publishers, investors, lobbyists etc.) 2. Selecting targets of public interest (70% of software isn't needed independently on its quality.) -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de