will lack of corporate support kill off Linux?

[Bradley Miller]

NIH (not invented here) syndrome . . . or the "can't buy it, it must not be
good".   There is just one thing that is still in the back of my mind about
open source, at least GPL'ed things . . .how *do* you sell it and market
it?  If I take Bill's widget maker and modify his code to sell it, I have
to also give it back to Bill and give it out for everyone to use.   Why buy
my version of a widget maker if you can grab the GPL'ed version and go for
it . . . ?   

I'm very much pro-open source programming . . . but there are still those
little things that make you go "hmm ? ?  ?".   Open source is running on
the model of "everyone will contribute because it's the right thing to do"
without looking at the "everyone won't always work for free" things.   

-- Bradley Miller

At 12:00 PM 7/13/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>Just a discussion ;), but have you been noticing (like I have) how reluctant
>corporations are to use open source - even though they are willing to buy
>any crap software at any price as long as it is "owned" by a company so that
>someone is liable.
>For example at my workplace, linux is not used, not allowed. In my earlier
>workplace, same story (we're talking the biggest phone companies in the
>country).
>Will this sideline open source to academia and maybe kill it off eventually?
>thanks,
>Anil Philip
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