[plug] M$ running scared

[Anthony Jones]

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On Friday 01 March 2002 19:21, Christian wrote:
> 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.

You are right.  I didn't state it very well. I meant to say:

You can't make it proprietary without rounding up all the developers and 
paying them off (getting them to supply it under a different license). You 
can commercialise it (without spending a cent) as long as you make the source 
code available under the GPL.

Anthony
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