Re: Poll on Linux Profit

From: Jan Panteltje (pNaonStpealmtje_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/14/05 

Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:24:48 GMT

On a sunny day (14 Jul 2005 06:03:34 -0700) it happened "llothar"
<llothar@web.de> wrote in
<1121346214.448064.170150@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>:

>First of all downloads do not mean anything. What they need is sales
>and that is a complete different story. I can show you people who get
>10000 downloads a month on download.com for there free apps and hardly
>make any sales with there professional version. Thats the problem.
>
>And $5000 does not mean anything, if you cut of $4000 for a full time
>administrator and $500 for an part time web admin. It's not looking
>very different from other companies statistics.
>
>It's so easy to fake this numbers.
>The interesting question is will the SugarCRM ever get a positive ROI,
>many companies don't do it. But only the time will tell.
>
>Don't take me wrong i think that with good software you can make a
>living (at least at the moment not sure if it is still possible in a
>few years). But OS is not the way for it.
>
>I still think this OSS is a very bad road for all programmers and for
>technical innovation. The world in the 90'th was full of small
>companies with exciting good products, now we only have a fraction of
>it and 95% of crappy unusable freak OSS. And things are getting worse.
No this is not corect, in the 90ties we had win3.1, and a few small programs
that made some money with it, trumpet winsock IIRC, Netscape came, then
Microsoft killed these by including the features such as TCP stack and browser
in their OS distribution.
And thus KILLING all these profitable companies (Netscape made money on servers).
In fact I know of very few DOS programs that made big money, except games,
and the early spread*** stuff, Lotus.
Open source (with Linux) has given us a stable OS, and there are thousands or
perhaps even millions of good open source programs, some even from universities,
and many closed source highly specific enineering oriented programs, for example
xilinx Altera (for FPGA) and Eagle (PCB layout not free) that are available,
If you have a program (open source) that does not do what you expect it to do,
and NEED it, improve on it or write it, or go use MS windows if it has that.
But in fact I think most open source software does what it is supposed to do,.
if you are a crossposting MS windows troll again then go away.
If you want money, money can't buy love (Beatles).
If you only want money go print some.
That is the way the banks do it.

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