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Mind Your Own Business (Model)
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| Why is there no "open source business model"? Because open
| source is not a business. It's the same oxymoronic
| thinking as the question "how can you make money if you
| give the software away for free", which simply can't be
| answered without correcting the questioner's worldview.
|
| To assert there is "an open source business model" is to
| lose sight of the nature of open source. It may have been
| a fair thing to do when open source was a novelty to
| business minds, but even considering there could be such a
| thing leads people to misunderstand open source and treat
| the exceptions - like MySQL - as the rule. Not that it's
| wrong to monetise ubiquity at the point of deployment by
| delivering the value that allows scaling (enabling
| adoption-led behaviour). It's just most open source
| community members don't do that.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/mind_your_own_business_model
Recent:
Thoughts about Dual-licensing Open Source software
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| Note that releasing your code as BSD for a project that has or may have GPL
| code doesn't protect your code from being dual-licensed in an unfavorable
| way. The only way to ensure full freedom for others is to only donate your
| code under a contributor agreement with a clause as suggested below or to a
| project that has agreeable guidelines for how they license their code!
|
| To assure our users, contributors, and customers of how we at Monty Program
| Ab intend to re-license the code we produce or the code people donate to us,
| I have added the following note to our contributor agreement:
|
| "Monty Program Ab agrees that when it dual licenses code, it will not
| restrict the way the third party licensee uses the licensed copy of the code
| nor restrict how they use their own code."
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http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/08/thoughts-about-dual-licensing-open.html
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