[License-discuss] OSI is not a trade association

[Christine Hall]

Yup. If something like the cloud comes along and suddenly an open source 
business plan that was working isn't working, that means you'll have to 
figure out a way to change your business plan to deal with the changing 
sand beneath your feet.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 7/3/19 7:17 PM, Bruce Perens via License-discuss wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 3:43 PM Christine Hall <christine at fossforce.com 
> <mailto:christine at fossforce.com>> wrote:
> 
>     It's vendors/developers seeking enterprise customers who want to
>     continue calling their software open source, but be able to use non
>     open source restrictions because their business plan doesn't work.
> 
> 
> That's correct. And one point I make very clear in my work at OSS 
> Capital: If all of the Open Source businesses went away tomorrow, Open 
> Source would be just fine. And it doesn't work the other way around. We 
> didn't ever promise their business plans would work, and it's not our 
> job to make them work.
> 
> I series-edited 24 books under Open Publication licenses a while back. 
> 23 made a satisfactory income for Prentice Hall. It wouldn't work today, 
> because of e-readers. Consequences change, and Open Source business 
> plans might not sustain you.
> 
>      Thanks
> 
>      Bruce
> 
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