Closed source? Was: Never ceases to amaze

[Bradley Miller]

>In this instance, bitching about Roxio is a matter of asserting that 
>something
>that "just works (tm)" in Linux is something you pay $80 extra for in 
>Windows -
>  and it still doesn't work.  Roxio is a prime example of why closed source
>sucks.

If Roxio was open source, do you think that would solve the problem?  If it 
was open source and anyone could openly compile and run it, do you think 
anyone would pay for it?   If nobody pays to have software developed, how 
does anyone make money?   If someone came up with a truly innovative 
product that blew any other Linux or Windows based solution away and it was 
offered for Linux at a price . . . would people buy it?  What if it was not 
open source?  What if it was open source but you still had to buy it?

At some point in time people are going to realize "hey, I have a life and 
writing freebie software in my spare time is not 'free' if it costs me to 
do it".  Open source (like Linux) is making huge inroads into corporations, 
not because it's free, but because other companies are spending money to 
develop it.  There has to be a payout somewhere.

-- Bradley Miller