wxPython Licence vs GPL

[Alex Martelli]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVETHIScyber.com.au> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 17:43:22 +0100, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > if I owned a company 
> > making profit on software sales (sale =! support) you sign a death wish
> > for using GPL
> 
> Apart from Microsoft, and possibly Quark (makers of Quark Express desktop
> packaging software), and perhaps a few console game developers, is there
> any company making a profit on software sales?

I believe Oracle is doing fine (and they appear to be trying to buy up
most everybody else -- other companies which used to make profits from
software sales before they got gobbled up).  I think SAP and Adobe
aren't doing badly, either, but I haven't checked up on them in a while.

I'd be surprised if there weren't many relative minnows that I didn't
think of, beyond the few "obvious" big fishes above listed.


Alex