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To: E. Charters who wrote (699)	12/4/1998 5:07:00 PM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2617

I'm not trying to give you a hard time, E... Just trying to relate your ideas back to Open Source, which is an integral part of Linux (remember the thread title). I like some of your ideas about separating the administrivia from the programming. I'm just having trouble seeing where the value-added part of the equation fits in. What would be offered to the programmers that they can't (or think they can't) offer by themselves. Web-based advertising and distribution is not exactly a high capital or complex endeavor. And, if the value-added is brand-name recognition and/or technical support, then there is nothing preventing that from being done for Open Source products. Hang Loose, -Mitch