Michael Tiemann writes: > Yeah, I've never quite understood the difference between free software > and dumping. For those people who aren't blessed to live in the US, > we have this thing called antitrust. If you sell a product for much > more than the competition, you've obviously got a monopoly otherwise > competition would bring the price down. If you sell a product for the > same as your competition, you've violating antitrust laws which > prohibit price-fixing (collusion between vendors to support a price). > And if you sell a product for much less than the competition, you're > dumping product on the market in the hopes of putting your competition > out of business. > > Fooey!! Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that just eCos was being dumped. I'm suggesting that you can make a case in America that ALL free software is being dumped (that is, violating antitrust law -- a rule all too often of men, not law). Then again, you can also make the case that Microsoft is violating antitrust, and if there were a competitor selling Doors '98 for the same price as Microsoft, they'd be violating antitrust (even if it's the price that clears the market). But thanks for the background behind eCos. I was wondering what it's raisin d' entre was (besides being a dried up grape). -- -russ nelson <rn-sig@crynwr.com> http://crynwr.com/~nelson Crynwr supports Open Source(tm) Software| PGPok | Government schools are so 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | bad that any rank amateur Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | can outdo them. Homeschool!