On Apr 15, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Scott McDonald wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Mark for clarifying that.
>> 
>> Where I was getting it mixed up, was that I was equating selling
>> commercially with not making the source code available.
>> 
>> But of course, they are not the same thing.
> 
> Not exactly the same, but how many people pay for milk when they can get the 
> cow for free?

Many, many people. If it means they don't have to milk the cow themselves, and 
feed it, and stable it, and call the vet when it's ill.... There's value added 
by the coder who puts something useful together and maintains it, even if the 
product is open license and could be hacked at will.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig



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