On 12-04-14 12:06 PM, [email protected] wrote:
You understand that you need not distribute your free software on
Internet, don't you? You can just give it (and its source code) to
your customers. With the catastrophic situation you are talking about,
it should be easy to convince your customers about the advantages of
having the four freedoms. That includes the ability to fix themselves
a problem (or add a feature) or to contract other developers/companies
to do so. No lock-in: the user is in control. Of course you would
offer some support explaining that, as the developer, you are in the
best position to provide a quality support in little time. With the
freedom to share the software, the lab can redistribute it to other
potential customers or even publish it on Internet. Do you think they
would do so? Isn't there a competitive advantage to have your
software? If you believe these labs are friends with each other, you
can try to make they pay more but altogether.
Thanks for answering my post and sorry once again to the list for going
this far off-topic.
I completely agree with you on the benefit of the 4 freedoms and that
this is in fact a feature that would raise the price.
While I am sure I would be the best person to support the software, GPL
would allow someone else to take my name off the code and people would
not even know that I was the original developer. Here the company with
the most advertising dollars will win.
I think people could easily redistribute the code on the net. The other
thing here is a company does not have complete control over it's
employees and even if the company I sold it to did not redistribute it,
an employee easily could.
"If you believe these labs are friends with each other, you can try to
make they pay more but altogether. "
If I bundled the software in large dollar value distributions this could
work, good advice.
Thanks again
