2007/1/11, Sachin G Nambiar bomlug@snambiar.com:
I dont care if college kids use it if they are not my customer, but why screw up my business model becasue these college kids might just hand it over to soene with enough money and resources to screw me up.
FOSS business is Free and Open Source Software + FOSS business model and you cannot have FOSS + proprietory business model and expect it to succeed.
That is where protective licenses (like GNU GPL) comes into your rescue. If people with enought money and resources do add a kick ass feature you also get it for free (it is not possible if you chose a non-protective license like BSD or X11 though)
not ideals, just bad for business!
If you want to do FOSS business dumb your proprietory business model (I
will lose market if I give out my code) and embrace a FOSS business model.
See Red Hat, Novell, Troll Tech, MySQL, JBoss, db4objects ... for example.
Cheers Praveen