rajendran wrote on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:54:52PM +0530:
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| I have often wondered, how, under the GPL/LGPL, a software can be both
| open-source AND priced. I thought, if Company-A gave away software
| source code, and allowed anybody to view/modify/redistribute, then, it
| would be immediately infinitely easy for Company-B to push Company-A
| out of the market, by just modifying the
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Quite natural a question :)
http://www.panix.com/~kingdon/writings/bizmod.html
(especially read the link 'What people will pay for'). Cygnus software
is a standing example of successfully following the free software
business model. However, please dont assume 'success' here means huge
profits and huge dividends :)
<OT>
Woodstock[1] didn't live in a palace like, say, Michael Jackson did.
:) However there were enough people who wrote out cheques to woodstock
simply because they loved woodstock. and woodstock managed to buy
their "daily dose" with it.
</OT>
cheers,
-Suraj
References:
[1] http://www.woodstock69.com/
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