Hi, On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 07:36:00PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Samstag, 15. August 2009 02:34:58 schrieb steve paesani:
> Please have a look at the success of LimeWire: - http://limewire.org - > http://limewire.com > > They sell a completely GPL licensed Gnutella p2p program, and they > make really good money off it. > > The means they use is to provide a Pro version which offers improved > performance by some changes which everyone could do himself in the > sources. Err... I don't quite get it. So is it free software what they sell? Do they provide the modified sources? > You won't be able to create a self-running money machine, though. Very few people manage to do that with proprietary software. So few in fact that it's insiginifcant. I don't think it's even appropriate to mention it in this context... It's just not true that people writing proprietary software get richer than those writing free software. -antrik-
