From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,499ea588f6acabff X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: gnat-3.10 Date: 1997/06/30 Message-ID: <5p8mrd$qsv@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 253648678 References: <1997Jun23.102715.1@eisner> Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-06-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ronald Cole 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". -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.