"Charles Brabham" wrote

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"virtually irrelevant to an investment-centered economy."--
James V. DeLong, Washington DC based Lawyer, and
Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property.

"Linux" (the OS) is about 1% of what you get in any Linux
distribution. The kernel of Microsoft Windows has evolved
to the same code. That is, Windows started out as a non-
threaded, non-preemptive, single user, multi-tasking OS,
where today, its kernel is pretty much indistinquishable
in function from 70's Unix or 90's Linux. OS is OS.

As a software developer, your choice today is not about
Open Source, or Market Based software, it is about earning
a high salary. Think of an open-end wrench sold by Sears.

Whether or not this open-end wrench is the product of Open
Source forge, or a Market Based forge, is of no consequence.
The person who gets the wrench (tool) is able to earn a high
salary manipulating the tool for his/her customers.

Take a database engine, for example: MySQL. Here we have
a tool that is basically free (as is the open-end wrench), and the
person who uses the tool is able to maintain a high salary.
That same person could have chosen a different database
engine, for example: Oracle. In that case, the high salary is
dependant on a higher total cost, and customers preference.

For example, it would be missing the market to deliver MySQL
to a shop of Oracle developers, just as it would be missing
the market to deliver a base-10 open-end wrench to a base-12
shop of mechanics.