Re: A guy at work sent this.

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 14:26, David Nicol wrote:

you mean, like Red Hat and Novell do?

RedHat and Novell don't sell rebranded OSS apps for the Windows platform. The end-user software market for Windows is different from Linux in that there are plenty of suckers out there willing to shell out some $$ for pieces-of-software-at-a-time.

In the highly speculative scenario I proposed, one would be getting insane amounts of markup off each individual package -- selling them all separately in the same way that proprietary apps for Windows are sold. I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who would never know they could have gotten it for free.

However, the ethical measure of such an enterprise is less certain...