"John A. De Goes" <j...@n-brain.net> wrote: > > Go ahead sell your GPL application. I'll get your code, build the > application, and sell it for less than half of what you're selling > it for. > I don't think you can go below 0.79 in the Apple store, and I guess you'll have a hard time convincing Apple to list your identical program alongside with the original version.
> How exactly will you make your money, then? > Selling tapes, not software. Unless you invent something like the internet that gets rid of time needed write tapes and package&shipment costs, you're going to have a very, very hard time being cheaper than anybody else unless you live on a different continent, and an incredibly hard time financing the advertisement you need to place your product more prominently than RMS can do simply by being himself. > When people say, "You can't make commercial software with GPL code," > they don't mean it's not legally possible to sell GPL code, only > that it's not commercially viable. > Oh, it is. Id is still selling Quake I data files, and you'll be surprised how much you're allowed to do since the GPL isn't the Affero GPL. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe