On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:31:37AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
Perhaps a simple economic analysis would help to assuage those egos.
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Finally (and most importantly), if users DO buy the value added product, every cent they pay will be not for the original product (whose market value, as entioned above, is tautologically zero) but for the value added by the vendor. Thus, no developer of WINE can claim that the vendor is "making money off of" WINE. EVERY CENT will be due not to what the WINE project did, but to the value added. If the vendor is able to make money at all (and it's a
Plain WRONG :)
If Wine wasn't there at all, then the vendor of such a package would have to create *everything* from scratch. And that argument still counts.
Yes, in order to make people buy some "value-added" version of Wine would require HUGE efforts on the part of the vendor, but without the Wine basics he would be even MUCH worse off.
Thus I don't buy your "EVERY CENT" part AT ALL.
This is the last part of your description, which sounds rather wrong to me. Anyway, the parts before that were very good, I think.