Re:Your business model is wrong... (Score 2, Insightful)

I've heard this argument before. "proprietary software will be mostly obselete for a number of reasons"

In a world of ideals, perhaps that would be true. But the real world contains a lot of factors other than ideals. If that mantra was true, how do you explain the success of Windows against Linux on the desktop. Linux has been around for 27 years, and has almost no market share among non-techies. How about Microsoft Office versus OpenOffice? How about in the world of games... can you think of one successful open source title? In the Web design arena, is GIMP used as much as Photoshop? Is there any usable competition to Dreamweaver?

I'm sure this is going to be flame bait...
Jason Shindler
Curvine Web Solutions
www.curvine.com