Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 23, 2002 11:50 PM
It depends on the nature of the software. If you (as a company or individual) are obsessed in selling packaged software, then you're probably not going to make bundles of cash by GPL-ing your stuff. At least you won't unless you lean heavily towards branding, as others have pointed out.
However, if you're providing software that actually runs businesses (for example, and that can be very lucrative) then do you actually believe that your customer will upload the software and all the configuration, documents and data that lets them compete more effectively than their competitors?
In such circumstances, the software isn't that valuable - it's the expertise around the software and the things that can be done with it. In my opinion, that's where the value is with most software - it should have nothing to do with how much a software company can stiff businesses for because they once had a good idea and now the businesses are locked into the software which implements it.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 23, 2002 11:50 PMHowever, if you're providing software that actually runs businesses (for example, and that can be very lucrative) then do you actually believe that your customer will upload the software and all the configuration, documents and data that lets them compete more effectively than their competitors?
In such circumstances, the software isn't that valuable - it's the expertise around the software and the things that can be done with it. In my opinion, that's where the value is with most software - it should have nothing to do with how much a software company can stiff businesses for because they once had a good idea and now the businesses are locked into the software which implements it.
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