Re: The New Linux Economy

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From: ToddT (NOturczytj_at_SPAMmaritz.com)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:47:27 -0600

still waiting. he must be carefully constructing his rebuttal.

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:23:41 -0600, ToddT <NOturczytj@SPAMmaritz.com>
wrote:

>well put. i'm looking forward to his rebuttal.
>
>
>On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:58:38 -0000, "John Timney \(Microsoft MVP\)"
><timneyj@despammed.com> wrote:
>
>>Interesting to hear you would pay for something that the majority of people
>>think should be free. Thats actually quite refreshing to hear!
>>
>>I like Linux (so no flame wars required), I dont however like the
>>misunderstood cost model that creates this expectation that as an operating
>>system it is free - its a misconception often found when discussing Open
>>Source. It isn't free as you have found, although in physical bucks it may
>>not have cost you anything for the operating system - support has cost you
>>quite a bit. Perhaps if you did have to pay for your driver you would have
>>found it a lot faster and had a lot less digging to do. I wonder how much
>>time and effort it has actually cost you if you calculate yourself an hourly
>>rate in finding the driver you needed, and how much time the guys working on
>>this single driver have given to solving this one problem.
>>
>>The diversity of Linux is as you suggest one of its greatest strengths, but
>>the idea that you would pay for a driver to the Linux community - but not to
>>MS is to me a little odd, although at least you "would" pay for someones
>>work which in itself is a credit. Sun and IBM, both advocates of Open
>>Source and pushing the Linux boat out do not give away the products for
>>free, would you therefore be prepared to pay one of these large companies
>>instead......or would these be excluded too as they are also very big
>>companies purely out to sell you something? Dont take this as a criticism
>>of your findings - its not meant to be, I'm just wondering if you considered
>>a wider picture in your findings.
>>
>>My biggest gripe here would be why the manufactureres if your S3/ProSavage
>>chipset board didn't have a Linux driver in the first place. Pity the open
>>source community is indirectly doing the work for this company and not
>>getting paid for it, its the S3 manufacturer who is creaming it in here- the
>>good will of the open source community will save them a lot of money and
>>hike their profits.
>>
>>--
>>Regards
>>
>>John Timney
>>Microsoft Regional Director
>>Microsoft MVP
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