[Foundation-l] [announcement] new staff member in business development

Yann Forget yann at forget-me.net
Sat May 19 21:56:49 UTC 2007


Hello,

Anthony a écrit :
(...)
> But I think the main issue has nothing to do with the IRS.  It's a
> matter of focus.  Developing a profitable business competes with the
> maximum production and distribution of content.  Charging maximum
> prices for data feeds reduces the dissemination of the data.  Charging
> licensing fees to DVD distributors raises the prices of the DVDs and
> thus reduces the number of DVDs which are distributed.  Etc, etc (*).

I think this is false, because we deal with digital and free content.

It is not because you sell a datafeed to one organisation at one prize
that you sell it to everybody at the same price. Same logic for DVDs.

Regards,

Yann
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