I read this article and was left wondering why someone thinks that lower prices necessarily lead to greater sales of things. Ever heard of "luxury" items where an inverse relationship exists between price and the number sold? Anyway, this aside is really not the central point that I want to make. I would have thought that the "gift culture" definition so accurately used to describe the open source/free software philosophy would make it impossible to launch a "market theory" based on the idea of "commercial open source".
Free does not mean "no economic cost", free means freedom of choice in software developed and in its use.
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I read this article and was left wondering why someone thinks that lower prices necessarily lead to greater sales of things. Ever heard of "luxury" items where an inverse relationship exists between price and the number sold? Anyway, this aside is really not the central point that I want to make. I would have thought that the "gift culture" definition so accurately used to describe the open source/free software philosophy would make it impossible to launch a "market theory" based on the idea of "commercial open source".
Free does not mean "no economic cost", free means freedom of choice in software developed and in its use.