Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 23, 2002 10:30 PM
Ofcause I read the GPL, but I don't think you have understood what the GPL does to a software project.
Sure, you can spend $10 million dollars (medium sized project I would say) developing some kind of software. Say you sell this for $50 piece. The problem is that the first customer can (and DO it has turned out) upload the binary+source to all FTP-sites they can find, the GPL gives them every right to do this.
Not only that, Redhat and all the other distributions downloads it and include it in their distributions. Now, who the hell is going to buy is from us when everyone get it with their distributions anyway???
Take a look at great bridge who made postgresql, they tried to sell their GPLd database for a while but Redhat just downloaded it, changed it's name to Redhat database and distribute it with their distributions. NO ONE buyed postgresql from great bridge and they got out of business in a blink of an eye.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 23, 2002 10:30 PMSure, you can spend $10 million dollars (medium sized project I would say) developing some kind of software. Say you sell this for $50 piece. The problem is that the first customer can (and DO it has turned out) upload the binary+source to all FTP-sites they can find, the GPL gives them every right to do this.
Not only that, Redhat and all the other distributions downloads it and include it in their distributions. Now, who the hell is going to buy is from us when everyone get it with their distributions anyway???
Take a look at great bridge who made postgresql, they tried to sell their GPLd database for a while but Redhat just downloaded it, changed it's name to Redhat database and distribute it with their distributions. NO ONE buyed postgresql from great bridge and they got out of business in a blink of an eye.
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