From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!ossa.telenet-ops.be!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Kent, why do you use free software References: <3C9A12FC.8EC6D8CA@smi.de> <87u1r3hzkh.fsf_-_@becket.becket.net> <87pu1rhypm.fsf@becket.becket.net> <3226184746308651@naggum.net> <87zo0ubupg.fsf@becket.becket.net> <877knyblrk.fsf@becket.becket.net> <63637457.0203270542.1628e4a3@posting.google.com> <87ofh6ug8d.fsf@kursk.kassube.de> <3226535078056817@naggum.net> <87663d2ogi.fsf@becket.becket.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3226556969589075@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 09:49:14 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1017568154 193.71.199.50 (Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:49:14 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 11:49:14 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:30620 * Thomas Bushnell, BSG | Among other things, ongoing maintenance is still necessary for software | since the rest of the world continues to move on. Image processors have | to deal with new formats, mail processors with evolving standards, and so | forth. But if you no longer have to pay maintenance fees, you have money to pool into purchasing the assets of the company with the other customers who are out on a limb -- and probably to re-hire at least some of the maintainers, too. If the software was free, you have to start paying for support with money you did not previously have to pay for anything. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.