On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 09:42:21PM +0200, Francesco Tapparo wrote: > > Are you saying that it is right to develop proprietary software to make a > living from it? > Then I cannot agree: proprietary licenses are not moral, in my opinion. > I'm not searching a polemics, but I must distantiate myself from your > opinions. then why don't we have big, well known companies that make non-proprietary software? i'm not saying that these couldn't exist, but unless you have the right people pulling the strings, it is a bit hard to do this. try and make a small company, just because you have to make your living, i bet you can't do it with non-propietary software, you have to sell it first, when your company has grown to teen-age or later you can do like the makers of mysql did. > BTW: RedHat, VA etc. are a proof that it is possible to make money with non > proprietary software. i would like to see where the money is coming from. do they make living by making Open Source software, or by making investments to other companies which make the money for them? Regards, Sami Haahtinen
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