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JaAksi

The Scandinavian concept of JaAksi has a rough translation to the our aphorism "To have one's cake and eat it too."

The gentleman in question seems to forget that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The code he is busily making money from was written, at least in part, by people who took no remuneration from it. They wrote it in order to add it to the "Common Property" currently licensed out under the GPL and relatives. The development tools and libraries themselves were developed in a similar way for the same end.

The reason it is economically preferable for him is that it is free to use. So Jaaksi takes that free gift and then bleats about the fact that it comes with strings attached. Call them costs, pay up and move on.

GPL and friends are not really on the same wavelength as concepts like Digital Rights Management, at least as they are currently constituted; both because the concept is anathema and that the practicalities of writing Open Source DRM systems make it quite a feat. Remember, if you can read the source, you can read the almost inevitable embedded keys.

Oh and making patronising noises about how the Open Source community really needs to grow up and face the realities of the comms market and then in same breath admitting that they are behind the times ?? What's that about ??!

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