Re: Gud lord!

[Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org>]

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:54:23PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>I'd consider some of the capitalization achieved for free software
>companies (like RedHat that acquired Cygnus and thus keeps GCC going
>financially) to be due to the "Open Software" hype at that time.

I can't help but wonder, wouldn't Cygnus have continued to develop GCC
and make a decent living at it, even if it hadn't been acquired by
Redhat?

>We profit in some ways from it.  Of course, there is also backlash
>when business finds itself having problems from exalted expectations.

Freedom often isn't "profitable"; what it does do is make our lives
better in myriad intangible, but important ways.

Jonathan

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