From: "bgulian@..." <bgulian@...>
Date: 2007-07-23T13:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Editor

On Jul 23, 12:20 am, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:05:09AM +0900, John Joyce wrote:
>

>
> There are other business models than the governmentally enforced
> artificial scarcity model where software is treated as physical product
> units.


What would those business models be? And are they so complex that the
developer must spend a great deal of time devising and testing them
rather than developing software?  I am tremendously grateful for OSS
but I have yet to figure it out. It seems that most of it is based on
some sort of patronage which is no business model at all.