Making money from open source / free software

[William Park]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:11:32AM -0500, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > >Open source has nothing to do with "producing software at a lower cost."
> > 
> > I think it has a lot to do with reducing software development costs.
> 
> To the contrary, the need for additional communications in open source
> projects seems likely to have a lot to do with _increasing_ software
> development costs.

Not if you factor in free "beta testing" and free "PR", which are what
Open Source represents essentially.  I think the cost of producing (ie.
salary for programmers) is the same.

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