Quoting David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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."
I know all this. It's the dual licensing scheme. The original point is that this is parasitic on closed source. And I'm not satisfied with that situation. > 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. Again it's legal detain getting in the way. In general terms selling a closed license equates with selling the software. It is the same *good* essentially. --MAA ----------------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through NIAAD: http://www.niaad.liacc.up.pt/ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
