[Ilugc] Is the proprietary camp winning ?
- From: binand@xxxxxxxxx (Binand Sethumadhavan)
- Date: Tue Oct 17 00:49:02 2006
On 16/10/06, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The question for a software entrpreneur is: 'how to make money?'.
This is not quite correct. The question for any entrepreneur (or in
fact, any businessman) is "how to increase the shareholder value?".
Several companies make heavy losses but still have created
considerable shareholder value and hence have been acquired at massive
costs. A recent example is Youtube.
FOSS-based software businesses don't create the kind of value you see
in other software companies because the source code, where they spend
the bulk of their funding in, in itself (the intellectual property)
doesn't have any value. Source code has been commoditized.
Binand
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