Hi,
As far as I understand it you can have a freely redistributable product (be it
AppServer, browser, pair of shoes) and build you business around services accompanying
it. E.g. Philips distributed (freely?) a licence for an MC tapeselling a lot of
products based on this afterwards. In this case you can distribute AppServer, let
everybody use it, let people improve it and let other people benefit from these
improvements. Customers will turn to you for services and support. You get a product
perfected by many people, with various needs and requirements, product these people
are usually 'attached' to and for which they can give first line, first hand support.
In this case it looks like Tekel will be starting hosting services build around Java
appserver (jBoss, most likely ;-) Here you go -- how many questions about hosting
services of this type have you seen on this list? It's a _recurring_ subject (along
with vvirus warning and reports recently :-) And field is open to everybody -- you can
do the same: in India, here in Canada; the only requirement is Internet pipe big
enough to let everybody sip from it. And in case any problems (read: bugs or
officially 'issues') you can turn to the original creator, try to kill the bugs by
yourself or find other users/usergroups/supporters and get support from them. Again:
you can build your business around supporting the Product for your local users (and
not so local -- on the Internet nobody knows if you're on South or North Pole, or
somewhere in between.)
OK -- I think it's enough, it's my longest post so far.
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But then how does the open source community benefit from it? OK they can
look forward for financers after their product is successful. But till then
how do they manage? Is it a dangling sword on their heads???
Rickard spoke of some business plan. Would you please eloborate on it.
Parikshit
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:23:06 -0700, Freeman Jackson
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>> This is not possible with GPL, which is why we use it: any enhancement
>> of our stuff goes back to the community. Period.
>>
>
>GPL can't police behind Global 500 firewalls. It's a nice idea in theory
but in
>practice there is too much theft of intellectual property to go open source
in
>"all" cases.
Ah, yes, I should have been explicit: any enhancement to code that is
*redistributed* has to be OpenSource. Hence, you can take GPL-code,
modify it, and use it internally for whatever purpose.
But I'm ok with that. We *do* want people to use our code as much as
possible. Why would that be a problem? I don't see this kind of "theft"
as a problem.
>Are you saying that in the Long-Run you have an advantage because jBoss can
>interoperate with other GPL related software? This is a great idea if it's
>true. Can you tell me more?
I don't understand your question. Can you expand on what the possible
edge of jBoss from a GPL-perspective would be. How does it matter
whether the other software is GPL? We integrate with both GPL and
non-GPL software.
>> It is interesting to see these discussions, as the awareness of
>> OpenSource, and what it *really* means and how it works, seems to be not
>> very well-known.
>> That will change.
>
>Ok How?
By having people like me telling you about it, and having good software
like jBoss available as OpenSource, and having businesses using
OpenSource software compete and beat non-OS companies. And having happy
users telling everyone they know how great that OpenSource app server
jBoss is. That's how.
/Rickard
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