> On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 09:49, Roland wrote: > > At 08:19 AM 2/15/02 -0600, Jeremy White wrote: > > >Several people have asked me to clarify my original post. > > > > I just don't understand one thing: > > How does your company expect to make money once WINE is > xGPLed? If all your > > code has to be contributed back, why should I buy it from > your company? > > > > Well, for one, we have a proprietary product that links to > Wine; we would continue to sell that. > > For another, we would continue to sell services to organizations > who wish to use Wine, but can't because it isn't complete enough. > > And finally, we would sell services to organizations that need > to depend on Wine, but cannot do so without the assurance of > qualified support to back up that dependence.
So you have answered the first question. CodeWeavers might survive. Good for you. But the second more important question was (in my words): Why should I buy a Wine distribution from you? If you are forced to contribute back everything I can just do: cvs update ; ./configure ; make install What I and other have been trying to say is that some business models like consulting business makes sense with a LGPL:ed Wine but others like Transgaming:s might not. Read what Gavriel wrote in his first(?) reply again.
