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| From | "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> |
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| Subject | Re: Apache, Eclipse, ... Why do they do this? |
| Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:44:56 +0100 |
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Stefan Ram wrote:
> Apache and the Eclipse Foundation work to create libraries
> and software, and then they give it to you for free. Why are
> they doing this? Several parties pay for them, for example
> IBM supports Eclipse (for example, in 2001, they supported
> Eclipse with 40 million USD), why do they do this?
One reason: to avoid leaving a hole in the market that a competetor might
occupy.
Another: they need the s/w but know they can't make a profit off it, so giving
it away gains brownie points (with their own staff as well as the outside
world) at very little /extra/ cost.
Many more reasons are possible too.
-- chris
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Re: Apache, Eclipse, ... Why do they do this? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-07-14 13:44 +0100
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