Comment on Can Android be Microsoft’s next $1 billion business? by dave

Wait a minute now think, stop, think. We in the U.S. live in a market society. think about what you are saying with "free" nothing is free. Most people expect a paycheck for their work, I personally don't mind paying a developer for their work, or music, or food from a farmer. Now think, think how can Google give away there work to me, yet still earn billions? Think! "Free" is a salmon egg on a hook free to the trout? Maybe you can see it that way, but is the fish free at the market? No. Google is in the business of selling people, people are the fish at the market, customers pay Google alot for their product wich is people. MS makes a product and sells it to you, sounds like a market system. Perhaps a utopian age of Aquarius would be nice, but I'm guessing our animal nature has some evolving to do before that happens. Think of free like the alphabet is free to use, but a book you pay the author for their story. Opensource or not its all the same at the end of the day, people want to earn a living, in the market system money is still important. You are paying for a developers skill in arranging code.

Comment on Can Android be Microsoft’s next $1 billion business? by dave

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