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It's the 'I want a piece of your pie' thing, that I also find troubling with patents. Person A: Invents something, fails to capitalize on it. Person B: does m
by shadowmint 13y ago
It's the 'I want a piece of your pie' thing, that I also find troubling with patents.
Person A: Invents something, fails to capitalize on it.
Person B: does marketing work, sells all the Monies!
Person A: -__- Oh that was clever. Actually, I want some of your money please.
Person B: Fuck off. <--- The correct response.
If you make something and want to sell it, sell it. If you make something and give it away for free, don't come crying when someone else sells it.
The 'dual license GPL' approach to software which is 'kind of free unless you sell it, in which case we'll negotiate some nice on going licensing fees' seems disingenuous to the spirit of open source (and specifically the GPL) to me.
- knocte 13y agoYou clearly don't understand open source. Go do some reading and later come back here. Some tips: free doesn't mean "gratis", it comes from "freedom". Therefore it is normal that the GPL uses a strategy to avoid that derived works become proprietary ('proprietary' means: essentially "non-free" for the end-user, and "free" for the developer). From your comment it seems that you confuse the fact that opensource is not something that benefits the developer; it is something that benefits the end user! Don't forget that.