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- From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software
- Message-ID: <C17to2.K92@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:52:49 GMT
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- Someone writes:
- > I don't see how you have a company that markets its skills in maintaing
- >GNU code since the work they do would be publically available.
-
- Well, there are a number of companies that are doing that right now. You
- seem to forget a few things from a generic company's point of view:
-
- o It cost a *lot* of money to have employees read news to monitor
- for patches/bugs, to have them retrieve the software and patches
- and then spend a lot of time configuring it and building it and then
- make sure it works. And then you have to add the costs of downloading
- software over modem or an even more expensive TCP/IP network. And then
- repeat this a lot of times a year. During all that time the employee
- could be working on doing the work he/she was employed for. Oh, and I
- forget the time spent on printing the manuals. It all adds up to a
- lot of $$$$$
-
- o A company that uses Gnu stuff very often want to have support from
- a company that specializes on knowing the GNU stuff so that it won't
- have to spend a lot of hours (expensive hours) doing debugging to
- find bugs in the compilers when they rather would spend those ours
- debugging their own software :-)
-
- /Peter
-
- --
- Peter Eriksson pen@lysator.liu.se
- Lysator Academic Computer Society ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
- University of Linkoping, Sweden I'm still bored. Flame me again.
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