Picking a license

[Ed Keith]

--- On Sat, 5/15/10, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> From: Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
> Subject: Re: Picking a license
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 12:57 AM
> aahz at pythoncraft.com
> (Aahz) writes:
> 
> > You can't really sell Open Source software in any
> practical way;
> > someone will always undercut you once it's out in the
> wild. You can
> > only sell support for the software, which is entirely
> different.
> 
> Not at all. I've been selling all the software I write for
> clients for
> the past ten years, and it's all free software. It's been
> very practical
> for me and those I've worked with.
> 
> You can't sell free software like selling loaves of bread,
> but that's a
> much more limited case and a far cry from your claim.
> Selling free
> software is quite practical and a good way to fund
> development of
> software that otherwise wouldn't be written as free
> software.
> 
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Why don't your own customers under cut you? If you sell someone GPLed 
software they have the right to redistribute it for less than you are 
distributing it for. That dose not strike me as a viable business model.

How do you make it work?

    -EdK

Ed Keith
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