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Someone can make a website called Compiled<x>.com and charge $25 (undercutting company) per download of the compiled product legally.
by swax 19y ago
Someone can make a website called Compiled<x>.com and charge $25 (undercutting company) per download of the compiled product legally.
- SwellJoe 19y agoAnd then I can make one called CheapCompiled<x>.com and charge $10 per download, undercutting both...and then some jackass gets the great idea to make a bittorrent of it...and then it gets included in the next Fedora release...and then some jerk decides to fix the worst bugs and forks off Super<x> and starts a project at Google code...and then the damned thing has 20 million users who aren't paying us a fuckin' dime. Actually none of these things sounds all that bad to me. But I also understand the GPL license and its relation to business extremely well. (My company sells a dual-licensed product that has a GPL variant, and we actually like the "and then the damned thing has 20 million users" aspect of Open Source.)