On Saturday 21 May 2005 19:19, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
From: Ninad Bapat freeninad@gmail.com
Hi I thought I had found a wonderful site in *www.linuxbazar.comhttp://www.linuxbazar.com
- based in Banaglore from where I could order Linux Cd's of the
latest distros and that too within week.
*Today i was shocked when I visited there site to find that it has been shut down.*
Gives you an idea of what suppliers of packaged software are up against, shorn of the legal barricade they have boxed themselves with. A services based industry requires widespread adoption of the service hence reducing costs of equipment on which the service rides increases revenues. Thus cellular service providers heavily subsidise handsets to reduce entry barriers. The customer does not care too much about the phone (except to the extent that branding drives him to care about goodies in the handset). The same process applies to freesoftware. Free software companies rely on lowering the entry barrier - ideally no barrier. Closed software companies must affix a price to their product this cost is a balance between an entry barrier and profitability. The entry of free software has totally screwed this equilibrium. Which has left the prop companies inside their stockade with a raging inferno outside. Only a matter of time before these companies are burnt to a crispy.
rgds jtd