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Fo me, somebody *should* be making money otherwise I cannot depend on them
(I would not fly an airline with volunteer hobbyist pilots). Either UNIX
developers make their money another way (through support, which can be
*much* more costly than off the shelf software), or they are into it for the
the fun of it (in which case they are not dependable, because in a year they
may get bored). Now, I would love for somebody to give me something for
free, all I am saying is I cannot depend on them for the future. It seems
to me that the free-software movement is a stalking horse for the old model
of expensive, customized, mainframe-type software. Gotta go, have a good
weekend.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Matulich" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: An open letter to TradeStation users from Bill and Ralph Cruz
> >If we are frank here, we would admit that TS is not priced like a
> >mission-critical application, and it is very hard to expect it to behave
> >like one.
>
> I can't help noting here that many mission critical unix software
> packages such as apache and sendmail, not to mention linux itself,
> are priced at $0. I don't see that price has anything to do with
> whether something should be expected to perform 'mission critical'
> or not.
>
>
> --
> ,|___ Alex Matulich -- alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> // +__> Director of Research and Development
> // \
> // __) Unicorn Research Corporation -- http://unicorn.us.com
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