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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (55030)	4/7/1999 5:26:00 PM
From: BGR	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeeter Bug, Linux is a strange case. It is an excellent O/S, far better than NT. It is also a product of free labour, labour of love. But is it a realistic precedent? I work in the enterprise s/w development area and I'm not sure that it is. I mean, till at least mechanical engineers start producing cars for free, for example. Even an artist expects royalty. BTW, if I ever got involuntarily excited over the prospect of any business segment becoming unprofitable, I would immediately start a process of serious introspection. We are all parts of this economy, remember. -BGR.