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Technology Stocks : LINUX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pink Minion who wrote (670)	12/1/1998 6:29:00 PM
From: g_m10	Respond to of 2615

Applix Adds Applixware for Linux On Compaq Alpha cio.com

To: Pink Minion who wrote (670)	12/1/1998 7:13:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

Well go ahead. and while you are at it tell me how many people made money at shareware. There were some great products out there and maybe two or three broke through into the economic world. \|Procomm, Qmodem, PCfile and a few others. I don't know a single person who has ever paid one red cent for a piece of shareware. Know anybody who has bought trumpet winsock? How many used it? Graphics workshop? Do you think they could have afforded 15 bucks for it? How about netscape? Of course as bad as browsers are written I would not pay for them. I believe in trial ware. Just it doesn't make any money. (most overcharge for trial ware like Hot Dog. 80 bucks? whew! Ghostscript 100 bucks? double whew! Now a programmers co-operative that charged reasonable prices for real softeware that did real stuff and was truly upgradeable, that I could buy into. It could still be done open source to degree but having the source would not help most people. It might help the pirates to a degree. The only consolation is most programs need upgrading from time to time. That would be the purview of the real programmer. Anyway is RedHat truly open source? I don't think so. RPM's are binaries. Is Sendmail? Ghostscript? etc... EC<:-}