On 8 December 2012 01:09, Chris Albertson <albertson.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW you CAN make as much money as you like with GPL'd software. Just look > at all Android phones. They contain Linux and a pile of other GPL'd > software. Apple is using BSD Unix in there products. That's an important point, and something the person that wrote the GPSDO software might like to consider. You don't need to be the size of Apple to make money from GPL. Plenty of people earn money from providing support for GPL software. There are numerous consultants for R (statistics package), Apache (web server), Wireshark (network analysis) etc. I've made money by selling support for a GPL program I wrote. http://atlc.sourceforge.net/ with hindsight, I could have probably made more, as a commerical company contacted me, asking if I could license it under the LGPL so they could use it in their closed-source commerical software. I refused. But with hindsight, I could have sold them a license to use it in their closed source application. As a company, if you use GPL software, you are not tied to one vendor. If there is a feature you want, you can eitiher add it yourself, ask the original author to add it, or if need be pay someone else to add it. Dave _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.