Re: [ossig] Copyright Laws

[Imran William Smith <iwsmith@xxxxxxxx>]

Colin Charles wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 13:06, Tze-Meng Tan wrote:
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>>Like it or not, UNIX/Linux people cost more.....
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>Why do they cost more? Its an attitude like this that makes people run
>away. Using the fact that they're lesser in number isn't useful either
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Theory 1)

Devils advocate - because there's a steeper learning
curve, meaning more people give up and go the VB route,
so maybe good Unix programmers are more intelligent :) and
you are paying for that?

Theory 2)

If there's less demand for something, it's more of a risk to
go into that field, and based on stockmarket principles, those 
taking more risk demand a risk premium.   That's one reason why
stocks pay more than bonds, in the long term.

Back to the skills vs prices thing, I was part of a similar
situation in the UK in 1995-1998 - Oracle was 60%
of the database market, Sybase was 15%.  I chose Sybase,
because it paid 30% more.  Now Sybase is dead(ish) and
Oracle lives.  I took the risk, earned my risk premium, and 
the higher risk was borne out in practise.



Imran







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