[CoLoCo] Can anyone help refute this?

[Ringo Kamens]

Do you still need a response, or did those articles work?
Comrade Ringo Kamens

On Nov 22, 2007 12:23 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
> On 11/21/07, Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just want to clarify on this one. Is he saying that nobody would
> > program software for free unless the software required on a service
> > that made the developer money?
> > Comrade Ringo Kamens
>
> His claim is that if you base your business model on providing support
> then you have little motivation to make good software because no one
> would need support if it was truly good. It's a stupid claim and one
> I've heard before. If you made bad software you wouldn't get any
> business either (wait, is that true? Isn't that how MS works?).
>
> Jim
>
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