Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 11:51:43 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030903114954.035693f0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20030903150303.GA2028@online.fr> References: <3F55A19C.73A1614D@mindspring.com>
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At 09:03 AM 9/3/2003, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >To get back to the original example: Qt? It's been entirely developed >by Troll Tech, at certainly not "marginal" cost, and though they started >off with a not-quite-free licence, they're doing fine with a >GPL+commercial dual-licensing system now. No, they're not "doing fine;" they're just not out of business yet. >An older example, as I said, is ghostscript, whose cost isn't "marginal" >either; but the comparison is not quite the same, since they released >GPL versions a year after their commercial/AFPL versions. Nevertheless, >it is a successful model using the GPL. Wrong again. Deutsch hasn't gotten a Postscript consulting contract in years. >A third example is StarOffice. Many people are buying it from Sun >rather than downloading OpenOffice, for support and additional features. Another example of selling something else besides the software. --Brett Glass
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