From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 18:11:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36A816A4C0 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E7543FB1 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:11:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030903011129.QHHC806.mta10.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:11:29 -0400 Message-ID: <3F553FBF.1010208@potentialtech.com> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 21:11:27 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030901205127.0337b270@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030901203824.0337c920@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030901205127.0337b270@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030902180103.0299aaa0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030902180103.0299aaa0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:11:29 -0000 Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:41 AM 9/2/2003, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > >>One thing that Qt has going for it is that the Qt people offer cash >>money terms in addition to the GPL's cross-licensing terms, if you >>want to avoid GPL infection. > > > Actually, GPL/commercial dual licensing is a very raw deal for the > company that's attempting to sell the commercial licenses. They've > set themselves up to compete with a version of their own code that > has no commercial value... because end users can get it free of > charge. It's not exactly a good idea to destroy the commercial value > of your product and then try to sell it. Nonsense. There are a number of companies that are making a go at it with that model. Look at Adobe with the free Acrobat viewer. How about MySQL for goodness sakes? Redhat may not be the richest company in the world, but they're riding out a lousy economy. That just seemed like a really outrageous statement to me. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com