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"Business-Friendly" licensing

Posted Jan 29, 2007 12:51 UTC (Mon) by Tr0n (guest, #42662)
In reply to: "Business-Friendly" licensing by ldo
Parent article: BSD - The Dark Horse of Open Source, by Brendan Scott, OS Law (Groklaw)

.. Tell me, how can you sell a product which you can get for free?

The only thing you can sell, is support or training, which again - you can mostly get through google/experience.

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Posted Jan 29, 2007 20:14 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Ask that of the $8 billion U.S. bottled water industry. Or of Red Hat, Apple or Microsoft. There are plenty of examples.