Marius Amado Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the 100000th time someone is trying to say that you can sell open > source software. Some people including myself sustain that you can't, > in practice. (That is, you can charge, and even sell a couple of > copies, but you'll be out of business the next day, when someone > starts giving copies for peanuts.) I asked the questions I did for two > possibilities:
That is a convincing reason why there is a cap on profits you can make by selling open source software. If your profits get too high, somebody will undercut you on price. However, it is not a reason for why you can not sell open source software at all. Again, this is beside the point of whether you can reasonably describe non-open-source software as "commercial open source." I maintain that you can not. Ian -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
