Microsofts new way of bashing Linux

[Andrew Zajac]

On 6/16/06, Alexander Jacob Tsykin <stsykin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday 16 June 2006 11:10, Andrew Zajac wrote:
> > Microsoft make more money because they were able to convince people that
> > software is the same kind of product as any material goods.
> >
> and there is a solid argument to be made for this


See the last paragraph below.



> most people do not want to improve it. They don't have the time or the
> inclination.



No one is pointing a gun to your head, insisting that you patch and
recompile your Ubuntu kernel.  You just can if you like.


> actually they do, its called a seminar. Doctors don't learn things by
> telepathy, they need to pay to learn. Otherwise they pay for medical
> journals
> to learn about new techniques.



And this is different from the FLOSS business model how?




> >
> They need to teach others, who pay for it, effectively making it their
> property in practice, if not in law.


Huh?  Just because you teach something doesn't make you own rights to it.
You can even have a sugical procedure named after you;  it still does not
allow you to charge royalties to others when they perform it.



> >
> All of these already occur, including talented doctors who can';t perform
> procedures because they can't afford the courses or equipment.



But not that they cannot afford the rights to perform certain procedures.


> >
> Which applies for absolutely any commodity which is in demand, and is a
> Utopian vision never to be realised.


It doesn't have to be Utopia for it to work.  I think it already works.
Will it go further and the desktop OS will becom commoditized?  At the rate
things are going, I think so.  I doubt it's utopian to think that.

Should *all* software be free?  Maybe that's Utopian thinking.  You don't
have to belive it should to use it and appreciate it, though.




azz
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