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Story: The patent poison spreads
Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 14 April 2005, 5:55 PM)
What kind of nonsense is this:
"If you don't want it free, you're welcome to pay."
The author obviously doesn't understand free-market economics - it is precisely the fact that if a good or service IS free that no one WILL pay.
The problem most software authors and companies have is that by licensing one's source under GPL, GPL MANDATES that 1) any additional code (including a company's proprietary extension of open source code) be also GIVEN AWAY FREE and 2) 'free' is not a business model. The more freely available a commodity is, the less its value will be. Selling things is all about creating value, not turning a creation into a worthless commodity like air.
The Open Source and GPL folks will never win over any real business people because Open Source is Communism - taking value that one person created, and giving it away to everyone else for free.
There is no profit in Communism.
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