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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rudedog who wrote (51754)10/19/2000 9:24:13 PM
From: JC Jaros  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74651
 
Question: When was the last time you went to CompUSA and bought a piece of software? In the past 3 years, I've purchased (let me count up) 1 software license - Partition Magic. --- You know what a typical piece of for-profit consumer software is? - Netscape. (a mess) --- What's the difference between the Netscape when it was $50 or whatever and when it became $0? --- Since they liberated the mozilla source code, mozilla become *higher quality (not less). --- And that's a *bad peer review example. -JCJ



To: rudedog who wrote (51754)10/20/2000 12:42:08 AM
From: David Howe  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74651
 
<< I don't think the industry will go back to the 1960s software model. Freeware is a neat fad for techies but an industry needs the economic justification to build and support solid products, and free just does not have it. >>

Clear as clear can get. Can't get any clearer than that, can it?

Dave


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