Open Source vs. Commercial Software

[FoulDragon at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/24/2005 11:04:10 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
derek at gnue.org writes:
>it propagates the notion that non-proprietary software does not have an 
economic value.  >Which is false.  

It's difficult to pin down an economic value for an item that's not actually 
sold.  Typically, the market for selling an item determines its value.

However, propriatery software has equally faulty valuations.

Just as OpenOffice is worth more than the $2.89 a copy for a CD and postage, 
Microsoft Office is probably not worth $489 except by merit of an artificially 
constricted market for it.