From: tb@mit.edu (Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG)
Subject: Re: future of proprietry source code (was: Ada generics are bad)
Date: 1998/04/17
Date: 1998-04-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u1hwwcoxx9w.fsf@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6h6f82$3lb$1@halcyon.com
tzs@halcyon.com (Tim Smith) writes:
> For large categories of software, the majority of customers don't want,
> don't need, and could not make effective use of, source code, whereas one's
> competitors could make effective use of it. As long as that remains true,
> a company can, all other things being equal, make more money keeping their
> source secret.
Those people STILL have a benefit to source code, which is that there
will be a free market for support. That means that they will be able
to get their bugs fixed.
Thomas
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-08 0:00 Ada generics are bad Glenden Lee
1998-04-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-04-09 0:00 ` Anonymous
1998-04-10 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1998-04-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-04-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-04-13 0:00 ` Christopher Green
1998-04-13 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-04-13 0:00 ` future of proprietry source code (was: Ada generics are bad) Fergus Henderson
1998-04-14 0:00 ` David Masterson
1998-04-16 0:00 ` David Kastrup
1998-04-16 0:00 ` David Masterson
1998-04-17 0:00 ` David Kastrup
1998-04-17 0:00 ` campo
1998-04-16 0:00 ` Tim Smith
1998-04-17 0:00 ` Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG [this message]
1998-04-18 0:00 ` Bill Gribble
1998-04-20 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
1998-04-21 0:00 ` William Tanksley
1998-04-14 0:00 ` Ada generics are bad Al Christians
1998-04-14 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1998-04-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-04-15 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
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