On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:57:23PM -0800, Richard Uhtenwoldt wrote:
> if you want to recoup the costs of your writing a program, then charge
> money for it. if you decide not to try to recoup your costs, then
> please include an explicit license (like the GPL, the LGPL, or the BSD
> license) that gives your users permission to share with each other
> modified versions of the program. (for more info, see opensource.org,
> gnu.org, news:gnu.misc.discuss.)
Or even better: do both. There are several companies that make money
out of free software, and some of them do development (some are pure
support companies). You will, of course, have to change your business
strategy for that to work: with free software, you don't have a monopoly
on the code.
--
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
http://www.iki.fi/gaia/
