Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> > Man oh man. Profit = buyer's cost to obtain - seller's cost to create. >> > >> > Okay? >> >> Ok. >> >> > Now we take the case with distribution of new (we are now going to >> > create) derivative work of something under the GPL: >> > >> > buyer's cost to obtain = 0 (per GPL "no charge" provision) >> >> Wrong. > > It's about obtaining rights to WORK (reproduction, etc.), not a cost > to obtain copies (material objects), idiot.
Oh, you are running out of arguments again and need to resort to insults. How surprising. Last time I looked, one could not make much use of a WORK without obtaining a copy previously. > Nobody in his right mind will buy multiple copies if one can buy > only one But multiple persons might buy one copy each, right? You conveniently forget that this is the sort of thing that turned RedHat into a multi-million dollar business, even if they try moving to a more service-based model now. > and make the rest himself at marginal cost around zero. Have you tried putting together a distribution yourself? All this copying can be a lot of work. > GPL'd stuff can be obtained for free from the net. "The net" has costs in money, time, and liability, too. Tell a superior when something goes wrong with software "I downloaded it somewhere on the net for free". >> GPL clause 1: >> >> You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, >> and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange >> for a fee. >> >> And that's what makes free software distributors turn a profit. Now > > So how come that Red Hat extricated itself from the retail market? Likely because their financial control thought that the service options were less precarious and more dependable than the leading-edge development. Which does not change that the latter got them where they are. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
