Making money from open source / free software

[William Park]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:44:32PM -0500, cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Numerous companies released pieces of software that weren't ready for
> prime time as "open source" under the assumption that there were hordes
> of programmers with time on their hands drooling at the thought of doing
> their beta testing for them; reality is otherwise...

Are you saying that if they had release it as "shrink wrap product",
then they would magically make money?  Shitty product is shitty product.
Oh, I get it... you would have to buy it and try it out, in order to
find that it's shitty.  --MBA Marketing 101.

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