Re: How does capitalism work with OSS?

From: P.T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 01/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:40:19 GMT

Jeffrey Silverman <jeffrey@jhu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:48:53 +0000, Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
> > Here's an analogy that might help you understand.
>
> Wow. Good analogy that I hadn't heard before.

So good, that I find it necessary to go and search for it
so that I can see what it is:

    Answer me this: how do companies make money off of wood or water or
    air? Why buy a 2x4 at Home Depot when wood is free in the forest?
    Why pay your local water company to pipe water to your home, when
    you can dip water freely from a stream? Why give good money to a
    company that just delivers compressed air in a bottle, when air is
    free all around you?

    These companies have a very successfull business model 'selling'
    free goods. Why do they work?

Because they add value to a product, or supply a convenience derived
from the raw product, or process a product in some other way.

Etc.

Good analogy.

Some of them even make money by keeping the air and streams fresh!
But I suspect they're paid by the gubbermint. I think so should we be.

Peter

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