On terça-feira, 14 de agosto de 2012 11.47.37, Atlant Schmidt wrote: > An enormous-but-non-paying user base still supports > my argument that going FOSS decreases the commercial > value of a software property.
Only if you think in direct and restrict terms of "cash flow generated from
sale of license".
As I showed in a previous email, this completely ignores the fact that an
increased user base increases the attractiveness by allowing consulting
companies to exist, compete and provide quality services; by creating a pool
of talented developers to hire from; by creating a user base that can answer
technical questions such as this mailing list, etc.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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