On Friday 14 March 2003 11:03 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was under the impression that RedHat and MySQL AB (others?) were > *very* successfull businesses.
It completely misses the whole point. Neither Redhat nor MySQL make any appreciable amount of money SELLING open source SOFTWARE. Instead they are selling service, support, and proprietary addons. To quote from the MySQL site: "All of our products are available under open source licenses, but we also sell commercial licenses for all of the products." There are many good ways to generate revenue from Open Source software that you have written, but selling it outright is not one of them. Which was my entire point. -- David Johnson ___________________ http://www.usermode.org -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
