Hi David, Paul, et al,
On 21 Mar, 2005, at 1:42, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> Joseph Kiniry wrote:
> [moderate snipping :)]
Ouch! :)
>> Also, how often do you believe that serious modern "for profit"
>> software development does not require significant capital?
>> The crux of that statement is as follows.
> Your question after some reduction can reasonably end up as "Is the
> FOSS and in particular Linux a valid development model?"
I do not believe that these two questions have anything in common,
actually.
> The capital and rights models are totally different for FOSS and
> proprietary software as is the security model. Yet another interesting
> point to make about this is IBM HP Novell Mandrakesoft. The Microsoft
> model is as far as I can see anyway a dead one.
Ummm.... okaaay. I am unsure what any of this has to do with my
question.
> Let me answer that question with a question.
How about just answering the question with an answer? :)
> Name a job that FOSS can't do? It has answered the desktop question by
> asking "is Microsoft ready for the desktop?". It has answered the
> server, the big number crunching, the embedded device, it is
> everywhere.
> If you need software written pay someone to write it, or write it
> yourself.
All of which require significant capital, in my opinion. While we can
all go on and on about how "free" Linux et al is, it still required an
*enormous* amount of time and effort to construct; time and effort that
inherently had (significant) value, regardless of how you interpret the
semantics.
> Would there be an Internet if Linux did not exist, I think not.
As Niall already pointed out, this is false.
> Until TCP/IP there were many different methods for one machine to not
> to talk another TCP/IP cut across that and provided a platform which
> became the industry standard as users did not have to pay an entry
> tax.
TCP/IP originally had nothing to do with FOSS, and in fact, I would
guess the majority of TCP/IP stacks are not FOSS.
Joe
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