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Stilly:
IT IS MY OPINION THAT OATS ARE NOT GOOD

hooray for expressing your opinion

hm_murdock:
YAY!

this discussion is now over



edit: I hate how every time you edit a post it says that you did.

UBB sux

[ March 28, 2004: Message edited by: JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder ]

preacher:

quote:Originally posted by flap:


Why do you care more about the bloated profits of corporations than your own and the rest of society's freedom to share modify programs?
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You think closed source software = slavery? Give me a break. I am a business student and I understand how business works and I see nothing wrong with trying to maximize profits, I have a problem with when they use unlawful practices to strangle competition. This is the main difference between Apple and Microsoft. Yes Apple sells a non-free, proprietary product, but they don't use unlawful practices to kill their competitors either.

Red hat doesn't make tons of money either. I believe after all expenses they had less than $500,000 profit. That is not exactly a huge gain. How much profit did Microsoft pull in this year? What about Apple? Oh and did MySQL make as much as Oracle?

[ March 29, 2004: Message edited by: ThePreacher ]

flap:

quote:You think closed source software = slavery?
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No; where did I say that?

 
quote:Red hat doesn't make tons of money either. I believe after all expenses they had less than $500,000 profit. That is not exactly a huge gain. How much profit did Microsoft pull in this year? What about Apple? Oh and did MySQL make as much as Oracle?
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Did you read my posts? I said that I know free software companies make less money than Microsoft et al, and I think that's a good thing. That's my point.

WMD:

quote:Red hat doesn't make tons of money either. I believe after all expenses they had less than $500,000 profit. That is not exactly a huge gain. How much profit did Microsoft pull in this year? What about Apple? Oh and did MySQL make as much as Oracle?
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Almost a good argument, but:
Microsoft: 93%, Apple: 3% on desktops I think;

And Oracle is much more widespread then MySQL.

Plus, MS makes 80% profit margins on Windows and Office, and because of that they're clearly manipulating the market.

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