On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 09:14 +1100, Benno wrote: > >>From a business perspective, the risk of free software is that your > >competitor can use your code against you. The benefit of free software > >is that your competitor cannot undercut you on price, which makes you > >very very hard to dislodge from your market position unless you screw up > >pretty badly. > > Sleepycat seem to be an example to the contrary. They make most > of their money frmo licensing their GPLed software. (I can find the > reference if anyone is interested.. I'd need to dig through my > email though.)
The last time I talked to Margo and Keith about this, Sleepycat's main revenue source was from *non*-free licenses. They use a dual license. The pattern seems to be that a vendor develops something using the GPL version and then pays for a proprietary license so that they don't have to release the rest of their code. I'ld be interested to know if that situation has changed. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
