At 11:43 PM 8/21/00 -0700, Infinite Possibilities wrote:
>Martin, I really hope you don't mean that. Are you telling me that if I
did the
>work on a net Montrous Manual, you would have absolutely no qualms about
taking
>it printing out as-is, make lots of money, and then not contribute any open
>content back to the community? That would be cool to you?
>
This cuts both ways. If you can't accept that you're giving people
permission to do JUST THAT, maybe you shouldn't be looking at open source.
There are millionaires at Red Hat and other such companies who never wrote
a line of code. They make their money packaging and reselling work written
by others. O'Reilly Press makes a lot of their money writing copyrighted
documenation for open-source software. I daresay they've made more money
off PERL than Larry Wall has.
That's the 'cost' of open source, gaming or software. If the thought of
someone other than you making money off your work bothers you, you should
probably NOT open source your work.
Of course, you're assuming someone CAN make 'lots of money' off of work a
consumer can also get for free. I question this assumption.
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