Open Source Business Found Parasitic, and the ADCL

[David Johnson]

On Friday 14 March 2003 11:03 am, maa at liacc.up.pt wrote:

> I was under the impression that RedHat and MySQL AB (others?) were
> *very* successfull businesses.

It completely misses the whole point. Neither Redhat nor MySQL make any 
appreciable amount of money SELLING open source SOFTWARE. Instead they 
are selling service, support, and proprietary addons. To quote from the 
MySQL site: "All of our products are available under open source 
licenses, but we also sell commercial licenses for all of the 
products."

There are many good ways to generate revenue from Open Source software 
that you have written, but selling it outright is not one of them. 
Which was my entire point.

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David Johnson
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