Re: gnat-3.10

[fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)]

Ronald Cole <ronald@ridgenet.net> writes:

 >dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
 >> If one charged "big bucks" for the enhancements
 >> you had made, and if companies were willing to pay the big bucks, then an
 >> obvious thing happens:
 >> 
 >>    1. If you charge say $1 million for your wonderfgul enhancements
 >> 
 >>    2. And lots of companies are willing to pay $1 million
 >> 
 >>    3. Then someone will buy it for $1 million
 >> 
 >>    4. And undercut your business by selling it for the bargain price of 
 >> 	say $200,000
 >
 >This assumes that the company that paid big bugs for a solution is
 >willing to "burden" themselves with the GPL's redistribution
 >requirements in order to recoup their costs.

No it doesn't.  They can still undercut your business by selling
your GPL'd software, with source, for $200,000.  They don't need to
distribute their own software at all, and they won't be "burdened".

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