RE: New BK License Problem?

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Mon, 7 Oct 2002 22:27:20 +0100


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Marketing plays a huge part...

Cheers, Dean.

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:19:56 -0300 (BRT) Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote:

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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net wrote:

> Whats the point of switching licences, YOU CAN make money from support,
> Mandrake makes a mint.

If they can, surely you can, too? And surely the subversion people
would be swimming in money now, from all the support contracts they've
been doing. Also look at those huge profits being made by all those
open source companies.

Hint: if the support model worked for source control software,
surely somebody would have gotten rich off it already ?

regards,

Rik

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