----- Original Message ----- From: "jtdyahoo" jtdesouza@yahoo.com
There is no middle path. If you agree with the fact that IP should be unencumbered then it would be unethical for you to encumber your IP which in any case is built on the knowledge of many others.
Then this would apply to all media - paper, video, whatever.
what exactly that is. I would like to know, because I don't see business models in the open source/free software world being as money-making as commercial software businesses.
You would require heavy capital investment or be a niche player. Use capital to build your brand image. If you brand it well the "ignorant" majority will buy your GNU Excel.
No they won't, because we can't sell GNU Excel. GPL, remember?
GNU-Net-slasher. And if the competition is improving it you will benefit since it is gpld. If the competition does not publish their derivate works as per the gpl, wait until they have made money, then sue the pants off them and live happily ever after in Hawaii.
And inherit the ill-gotten gains of the non-gpl'ing scum? An ethical issue here ;)
--- Tushar Burman GNU/Linux/*BSD evangelist, friend to animals. tb@freeos.com icq: 112803958 y!: tusharburman msn: tusharburman aolim: tusharburman ---