Dilema
John Tapsell
tapselj0 at cs.man.ac.uk
Tue Mar 19 00:41:50 UTC 2002
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> If your product is worthwhile, you will be obsolete by then. Either a Free
> Software replacement will be developed, forcing you into doing what you
> should have done originally, or a larger competitor's closed product will
> kill yours so you might as well open and do what you should have done
> originally. Either way, your loss of reputation is massive and possibly
> catastrophic.
Or same scenario, but from another point of view, I make a bit of money for
myself, other people see it and develop better/ Free versions, and I get to
tell my parents and uni friends how I owned a company for a year or whatever
:)
> Of course, that is assuming that you're not planning to use some other
> dubious tactic such as process patents to prolong the agony.
grin
One-Click-Linux .. hmm... ;)
JohnFlux
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