GPL Business Model
Message ID: 41123
Posted By: crunchie812
Posted On: 2003-09-12 13:53:00
Subject: GPL Business Model
Recs: 7
The GPL is good for business. Unilever is a business, a VERY big business. They were able to do that math and see that by contributing funding directly to the development of Linux rather than blowing larger amounts on proprietary lock-in licensing, they can enhance their long term profitability. Businesses don't give a rats ass about the underlying platform, they care about the applications they need to run their business. And if they can run their business more profitaly by contracting out the application development than buying into open ended licensing scams with forced upgrades, they will. And if it looks more profitable to protect their investment and share the development costs with others by publishing the code under the GPL, then that is what they will do.
It's about Business. Not about the Software Business, Business. It's about capitalism and free markets. It just sucks for you if your business model is not what the market wants.
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Posted By: crunchie812
Posted On: 2003-09-12 13:53:00
Subject: GPL Business Model
Recs: 7
The GPL is good for business. Unilever is a business, a VERY big business. They were able to do that math and see that by contributing funding directly to the development of Linux rather than blowing larger amounts on proprietary lock-in licensing, they can enhance their long term profitability. Businesses don't give a rats ass about the underlying platform, they care about the applications they need to run their business. And if they can run their business more profitaly by contracting out the application development than buying into open ended licensing scams with forced upgrades, they will. And if it looks more profitable to protect their investment and share the development costs with others by publishing the code under the GPL, then that is what they will do.
It's about Business. Not about the Software Business, Business. It's about capitalism and free markets. It just sucks for you if your business model is not what the market wants.
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