will lack of corporate support kill off Linux?

[Duston, Hal]

Well, I think part of what is missing here is that the 
majority of code written is never sold.  I have been 
programming for money for nearly 15 years and not a 
single line of code I have ever written has ever been 
included in any software that was ever sold.

Five years at the county gov't, never sold a bit of SW.
Five years at a blood testing lab, never sold a bit of SW.
Two years at KCPL, never sold a bit of SW.
Two years at Sprint, never sold a bit of SW.

Hal

Bradley Miller [bradmiller at dslonramp.com] wrote:
> 
> 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
> >--------------------------------------------------
> >disclaimer: my opinions are my own and do not reflect ....

No kidding! :-)