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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
In the U.S., we call those "non-profit organizations." They are very different entities from for-profit businesses. And they rarely make products that are competitive with other products... if they "make" anything tangible at all.
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I had to chuckle about this post <G>. Microsoft Corp., one of our "premier" for-profit software-producing entities, makes products that are inferior to many of the "free" alternatives. BSD, for example, blows Windows away in terms of stability, reliability, and of course- cost. I administer numerous BSD, Windows, and Linux servers- ALL of my BSD machines have been up for over a year now. Windows? Well, I have managed to keep a few going for 6 months without reboot.
Apache? Runs over half the world's web servers. Also free. Goes to show that the "for-profit" model may not be working so well in the software world.
And while everyone is talking about protecting the rights of the content-distributors, you might remember that one of the greatest writers of the last century- Philip K. Dick- made only $15K during his BEST year! Do you think his publishers profits only amounted to 15K that year? I don't think the profits usually end up in the artists' wallets.....