From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-07-24T02:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Editor

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Alex Young wrote:
>> I wasn't talking about independent developers
>> specifically, but what reason is there that MySQL's business model
>> couldn't scale down?
> Lots of reasons ... look up "barriers to entry" in any MBA textbook.
Not entirely sure I understand.  What barriers do you mean?

>> Besides, it doesn't really matter if you don't like this particular open
>> source business model.  There are plenty of others.
> There are plenty of business models. There are many fewer *profitable*
> business models, and almost all of them require that a product or
> service *exist* and outrank its competitors on important *non-price*
> differentiators of quality as perceived by customers.
Yup.  One place that open source projects tend to outrank closed source 
ones is in the user community (yes, I know that there are 
counterexamples in both directions, and also examples where that's 
completely irrelevant).

-- 
Alex