On Thursday 17 August 2006 02:07 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On 17/08/06 12:31 +0530, Philip Tellis wrote: > > The BSD, Apache, MIT, etc. licences work because of a simple > > model. They allow you to take without giving back, but they > > ensure that unless you give back, your code will be so far out of > > sync with HEAD that you spend more money merging the latest > > changes into your code than you would spend in merging your > > changes back to HEAD. > > Which works on the assumption that people using/deriving BSD code > want to stay in sync with HEAD. > > I don't know of too many projects doing this. They usually use the > BSD stuff as a way to get to a running start, but not much beyond > that.
Market share that's all tey care about. Finished Closed apps would not even qualify as beta. So working bsd app would outlive the product life cycle. After which u launch a new model with the latest and greatest from HEAD. If the source was open any reseller with gcc would be able to fix bugs effectively killing the new improved model. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
