Dual licensing

[Russell McOrmond]

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Marius Amado Alves wrote:

> - I'm wrong, in which case I'm honestly interested in being proved such

  You are wrong ;-)

  This is wrong just as anyone who claims you can't sell bottled water
just because it is also open source (H2O, no monopoly on its sale, etc,
etc) is wrong.  Granted this is an analogy between a rivalrous-tangible
and a non-rivalrous (or with software, anti-rivalrous) intangible, and
such analogies are never identical.  I do find that mentioning bottled
water often gets people out of being extremely limited by legacy software
business models based on monopoly rents.

  What you can't do with commercial selling of open source is base your
business on a monopoly rent, or other type of less-competitive monopoly.  
That is just one relatively minor business model, not the only way to
"sell software".

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