Which DUAL Licence should I choose.

[Ben Tilly]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Tzeng, Nigel H. <Nigel.Tzeng at jhuapl.edu> wrote:
[...]
> While charging for software products may not be the only way to make money
> on software, it is a/the dominant one and highly effective.  There is also
> middle ground between proprietary and F/LOSS.  OSI can concede that
> territory or not but CC has elected to embrace it and I think to good
> benefit to their commons even with some legal nebulosity of the NC clause.
[...]

Really?  A decade ago Karsten Self did an interesting analysis.  He
took the 10 largest software companies by revenue, and used public
data streams to figure out the source of their revenue.  Of the 10
only one (Microsoft, at the time the biggest) made more money from
software sales than anything else.  The other 9 all had multiple
revenue streams but made more money from software consulting than
anything else they did with software.  (Several, such as IBM, had
significant hardware revenue.  He excluded those revenue streams as
well.)

I would expect an attempt to repeat the analysis with current
companies to come to similar conclusions.  As a result I believe that
the charging for software products is not the dominante way to make
money from software.  It is merely the most obvious and visible.

But this is all a diversion.  This list is meant for discussion about
software licenses, and not discussions of software economics and
politics.  So I'll bow out of the discussion now.