Hello, Debian webpage states about greedy of IT corporations. In my opinion it is not so easy to state it. Of course current cloud offer of MS Office for $12 per month would means one tryllion a year if 7 billion people would subscribe. That would be insane. But in fact if 100 million would subscribe they would probably be lucky.
That in economics is called elasticy. For one dollar we could probably have 1 billion subscribes. If one entity would have to pay for Office production it would not be created. Price 0 for bugless software means freedom for users. For software industry problem seems somewhat more complicated for me. Cost of creating all debian packages is probably calculated in hundreds of billions dollar. There are serious donations of code from corporations just to mention openjdk, chromium, X server etc. Cost of one hundred billion (maybe it is way to much) would mean that one billion users would have to donate $100 dollar totally to pay off Debian code. What do you think about this ? -- Marek Mosiewicz <marek.mosiew...@jotel.com.pl>
