__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 13 February 2007 10:17 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 11 February 2007 08:20 \__
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> __/ [ thad01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Friday 09 February 2007
>>>> 23:42 \__
>>>>
>>>>> amicus_curious <ACDC@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As smug as the OSS proponents are, they are making a terrible showing
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> commerce. Their flagship Red Hat posted a $58M profit on gross sales
>>>>>> revenues of $278M while the deeply troubled Microsoft could only
>>>>>> muster a
>>>>>> $16, 472M operating income on gross revenues of $44,282M. To put that
>>>>>> into perspective, with about 250 business days per year, Microsoft has
>>>>>> more
>>>>>> action in any one day than Red Hat for a full year. The OSS
>>>>>> proponents like to claim the moral high ground, of course, but they
>>>>>> are loath to look at the scoreboard.
>>>>>
>>>>> Two points at issue here:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Using profits to measure the success of OSS is the wrong way to look
>>>>> at it. Open source is a development model, not a business model. You
>>>>> need to look at deployment figures and the money it SAVES the people
>>>>> who use it to get the real picture.
>>>>
>>>> Bill Weisgerber (amicus_curious) in in econmics. He doesn't understand
>>>> computing. He only speaks the language of money and people elsewhere
>>>> have argued that he gets paid to post in forums. It's all about money to
>>>> him.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, okay, but he's not particularly knowledgeage about economics,
>>> either.
>>
>> Which is why he works in a no-name college, just like Erik (who apparently
>> left or got sacked some time ago).
>>
>
> Really? I hadn't realised that. Talking about economics, today's FT
> has a long piece about why DRM is bad written by John Gapper, on page 19,
> so in the first section called "Why digital music should be set free" ;
> *and* there's a Leader article in The Economist in the 10th-16th February
> issue, called "Music wants to be free", on Page 14.
>
> Both pieces have been catalysed by the Steve Jobs essay, but even so,
> take a good economically-sane view of DRM. It is noted in the FT piece
> that iPods typically have < 1.5% of DRMed music on them anyway, so it
> would appear that most people are buying CDs and ripping them, as per
> the advice from Bill Gates.
There was an academic study about DRM.
The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis
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| Our estimates are inconsistent with claims that file sharing is the
| primary reason for the decline in music sales during our study period.
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http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JPE/journal/issues/v115n1/31618/brief/31618.abstract.html?erFrom=-2768404614279062069Guest
http://tinyurl.com/24hehz
Viewing the full paper isn't free (as in free beer, but probably not as in
free speech either, e.g. Creative Commons with derivation permitted).
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