From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:39:21 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-08-23T18:39:21+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnamd0as.g58.randhol+news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D66792F.F77550E@san.rr.com
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:03:40 GMT, Darren New wrote:
> Preben Randhol wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:52:52 -0700, Robert C. Leif wrote:
>> > From: Bob Leif
>> > To: Tom Moran et al.
>> > The GNU approach is essentially monopolistic. The ultimate in unfair
>>
>> In what way?
>
> In the same way that people complain about giving away IE for free.
Ah a monopoly that contains all the people on the planet. I see.
>> This is a very strange statement as Microsoft has released IE and other
>> programs free of cost. Of course you must buy their dratted OS to use
>> them.
>
> Well, then, that's the cost, isn't it? :-) They give away their OS for free,
> too. You just have to buy their OS to use it.
Oh where can on get a free Windows OS? I would like Windows 2000 instead
of Windows XP where nothing works.
>> The GNU model is different. It says that the source code should be free
>> (as in speech) for everyone.
>
> Not "as speech". Free like free beer.
> http://denbeste.nu/essays/freebeer.shtml
This essay contradicts itself.
>> What will decrease it?
>
> OK, put it this way. The latest video game is released. Everyone gets to
> copy it for free. Indeed, before it is announced, everyone knows they'll be
> able to get free copies. How many copies actually sell? How do you pay the
> people who did the voice work? How do you pay for the plane tickets to fly
> around taking pictures of textures to be used? How do you pay for the food
> you eat while you're spending 2 years working on the game? How do you pay
> the artists who draw the logos for the product? How do you pay for the
> actors that do the motion-capture?
>
> Now, if you have to pay for each one you use, then the company can
> guesstimate that they'll sell 100,000 copies, and charge $20/copy, and
> thereby collect $2million before people find a way to pirate it. They can
> spend some of this on employees, some on plane tickets, some on computers,
> electricity, etc.
Exactly the money value. So why not say this in the first place?
Preben
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2002-08-16 8:48 Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-16 9:14 ` Steffen Huber
2002-08-16 11:22 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-17 15:55 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-19 21:29 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 0:13 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-20 21:21 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 12:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-21 22:41 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-21 13:05 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-21 13:07 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-21 14:42 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-21 19:32 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 5:43 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-22 6:30 ` tmoran
2002-08-22 17:30 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-23 2:01 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-23 4:00 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-23 20:36 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 5:24 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-08-24 20:00 ` Excessive quoting and Outlook (was: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?) Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 22:30 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-24 21:57 ` mailers, quoting text etc. (was " Robert Dewar
2002-08-25 3:29 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-27 18:12 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-31 14:02 ` chris.danx
2002-08-31 13:58 ` chris.danx
2002-08-25 6:20 ` Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? tmoran
2002-08-26 1:56 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 4:42 ` tmoran
2002-08-30 19:21 ` data on cla messages, was " tmoran
2002-08-31 12:21 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-31 16:21 ` tmoran
2002-08-31 22:02 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-23 3:14 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 19:31 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-22 22:49 ` tmoran
2002-08-23 14:52 ` Software Economics was " Robert C. Leif
2002-08-23 16:26 ` OT: " Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-23 18:19 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-24 3:33 ` Weston T. Pan
2002-08-24 5:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-24 13:16 ` Bill Tate
2002-08-26 9:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-08-26 12:16 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-26 14:25 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-27 10:43 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-27 19:10 ` Bill Tate
2002-08-27 22:23 ` Bill
2002-08-27 12:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-27 13:04 ` Bill Tate
2002-08-24 0:11 ` Software Economics Robert C. Leif
2002-08-24 13:01 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-23 17:55 ` Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Preben Randhol
2002-08-23 18:03 ` Darren New
2002-08-23 18:39 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2002-08-23 19:15 ` Darren New
2002-08-26 14:14 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-26 17:14 ` Darren New
2002-08-26 22:47 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-26 17:31 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-26 22:49 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-24 1:58 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-27 18:43 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-27 18:52 ` tmoran
2002-08-29 13:36 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-24 2:05 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 7:28 ` tmoran
2002-08-24 21:53 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 13:40 ` Ted Dennison
2002-08-22 23:11 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-22 6:50 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-22 13:49 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-23 9:29 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-24 2:19 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-26 21:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-27 5:57 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-27 19:27 ` Michael Bode
2002-08-28 1:56 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-28 12:59 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-28 22:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-08-24 2:24 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-24 20:12 ` Michael Bode
2002-08-24 23:05 ` Darren New
2002-08-25 15:53 ` SteveD
2002-08-25 16:48 ` Michael Bode
2002-08-26 7:12 ` John R. Strohm
2002-08-21 19:30 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-22 8:19 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2002-08-22 19:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-29 16:03 ` Tucker Taft
2002-08-29 21:36 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-31 1:58 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-30 14:19 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-30 17:14 ` Richard Riehle
2002-09-02 20:50 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 15:00 ` Darren New
2002-08-20 19:52 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-20 20:50 ` Darren New
2002-08-20 18:29 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-21 22:41 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-21 19:34 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 22:25 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-21 19:40 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 0:08 ` BSCrawford
2002-08-22 1:19 ` Larry Hazel
2002-08-22 1:45 ` SteveD
2002-08-22 3:23 ` tmoran
2002-08-22 10:28 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-21 19:44 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-22 22:50 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 18:32 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-19 17:16 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-20 20:40 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-20 15:45 ` Richard Riehle
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