Re: Funding GPL projects or funding the GPL?

[Roger Larsson]

On Saturday 27 July 2002 18.22, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 01:06:56PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Actually, that's an interesting topic.  Other applications could use
> the BK model of "free if you're out in the open" and pay otherwise.
> It's pretty effective.  However, it doesn't work very well when the
> community beats you to hell for not being GPLed.  I had a thick enough
> skin to deal with it, I doubt others would, they'd give up.  It also
> doesn't work when people refuse to obey the license because they 
> don't agree with it (we had plenty of that).

Trolltech does the same. And have taken the same amount of heat.
(Probably A LOT more... since their Qt is the base for KDE)

/RogerL

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Roger Larsson
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