Re: Open Source vs. Commercial

Wayne Niddery [TeamB] wrote:

> That they
> choose not to be paid in monetary form is irrelevant to whether their
> work has value to others. Another measure of progress is in the
> lowering of costs of production - this is considered a good thing in
> all normal cases, but yet you claim a cost of $0 for some component
> of production magically becomes bad and makes things more inefficient
> - that is a contradiction that cannot stand in reality.

Exactly -- as if charging $0.01 cents for 1000 copies of Linux would
suddenly change things.

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