[plug] M$ running scared

Christian christian at amnet.net.au
Fri Mar 1 19:21:10 WST 2002


On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:50:24PM +0800, Anthony Jones wrote:
 
> An important point that they also seem to have missed is that if something
> is available as GPL it doesn't actually mean that you can't commercialise
> it - it's just that you can't commercialise it FOR FREE and without the
> consent of the authors.
 
Don't you mean that you can't commercialise it and make it proprietary
at the same time?  You can commercialise it "for free" (i.e., for no
cost) which is really an advantage in a lot of ways.

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