On 27 Jan 2008, at 20:15, paul at clubi.ie wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, paul at clubi.ie wrote:
>>> That's little different to RedHat only distributing their RHEL only
>> to a certain category of people..
>> Modulo RedHat redistributing other people's code, in addition to
> their own code and so being bound the GPL themselves. But you know
> what I mean, hopefully ;).
But they don't have to package it up - to make it so easy to set up
an alternative option : CentOS/Whitebox etc.
> I.e. he's betting that commercial users will users will want his
> expertise, rather than his code for free, and that no-one will set
> up a similar 'shop' with the GPLed version and undercut him.
>
Nothing wrong with making a living I agree.
Conor
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