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Date:      Wed, 03 Sep 2003 11:51:43 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20030903114954.035693f0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20030903150303.GA2028@online.fr>
References:  <3F55A19C.73A1614D@mindspring.com>

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At 09:03 AM 9/3/2003, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>To get back to the original example: Qt?  It's been entirely developed
>by Troll Tech, at certainly not "marginal" cost, and though they started
>off with a not-quite-free licence, they're doing fine with a
>GPL+commercial dual-licensing system now.

No, they're not "doing fine;" they're just not out of business yet.

>An older example, as I said, is ghostscript, whose cost isn't "marginal"
>either; but the comparison is not quite the same, since they released
>GPL versions a year after their commercial/AFPL versions.  Nevertheless,
>it is a successful model using the GPL.

Wrong again. Deutsch hasn't gotten a Postscript consulting contract in
years. 

>A third example is StarOffice.  Many people are buying it from Sun
>rather than downloading OpenOffice, for support and additional features.

Another example of selling something else besides the software.

--Brett Glass



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