Re: Making money on open source, if not by selling _support_, then how?

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:13:31 GMT, Justin Gombos wrote:

First of all, there are no conflicts of interest.

Is it good to have no conflicts? I would say, what we have now is rather a
lack of [technological] conflicts and true competition. Technical
superiority is long not an issue.

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I agree with Randy. There are two fundamental problems neither model
actually responds:

1. Rewarding true inventors (rather than monopolists, publishers,
investors, lobbyists etc.)

2. Selecting targets of public interest (70% of software isn't needed
independently on its quality.)

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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