Sometime on Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:48:34PM +0530, Mitul Limbani said:
Hi Siddesh,
Quoting Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com:
On 8/31/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
Besides he very convienetly forgets the value of everbody else's contribution - ideas, code, debugging, publicity.
I think he's complaining that FOSS essentially attacks the idea of software as a *product* which can be sold like a tangible product such as a car, stereo, etc. Businesses thriving on FOSS (Trolltech, RH, Suse, Novell, etc) essentially give away the product for free and charge for the service.
Trolltech ==> charges Fee for using their QT library in your code.
Qt library is freely available under GPL if you are making FOSS application. One needs to get commercial copy of Qt only iff s/he is developing a proprietary application using Qt.
Same is the case with MySQL's dual licensing, but somehow people always criticise Trolltech :)
Anurag