"David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:87skdr9gsd....@lola.goethe.zz...
Now I would not put it past you to try to set up a business centered
around this purportive loophole. But nobody in his right mind would
care to do important business with you anyway. You come across as far
too willing to take unnecessary risks. Your compulsive desire to prove
yourself clever and the rest of the world stupid is simply too dangerous
in a business partner.
Very few have ever succeeded in any business centered around open source
software. Granted that many businesses use open source software as a part
of their product offering, they only use it where there is no advantage to
be obtained in offering anything proprietary. There is nothing in the open
source world to differentiate it successfully on a commercial basis. Open
source software is much like the forks used within a successful steak house.
They are absolutely necessary since almost no one would be willing to have
to eat with their fingers, but no one patronizes the establishment due to
the reliability of the business's forks. They go for the sizzle.
The GPL suffers on occasion because they periodically insist that the steak
house proprietor acknowledge the source of the forks and must feature some
accolade prominently in the house menu.
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