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Commenting propriterary/free software

Posted Dec 5, 2002 8:19 UTC (Thu) by msv (guest, #8380)
Parent article: No future in proprietary software (ZDNet)

Hello-oo!
Anybody remembering we live in a market economy?
The *customer* chooses what products to use, not the vendor. The russians tried it the other way around for 70 years, it didn´t turn out any good.
Proprietary or free, why all this fuzz? I use what I like, if any company, ANY company, goes down the sewer because of this, well, that´s the nature of market economy.
If ANY company has a business model that doesn´t fit the customers the company will notice, a.k.a. "no money".
Time will tell if the proprietary model is good or bad. Trust me on this one.
regards
Mikael S.


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Commenting propriterary/free software

Posted Dec 5, 2002 14:39 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Copyright is protected by the state. Money of taxpayers is spent to protect companies' right to hoard information.

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