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The Cathedral In The Bazaar?

Posted by timothy on from the your-code-your-decision dept.

replicant_deckard writes "This opinion piece I wrote to Open explains how dual licensing (simultaneous use of both GPL and proprietary license) works. Dual licensing gives you basically both the support of the community and a profitable Microsoft-like business model. Seems that this model used by MySQL and TrollTech is getting more popular. Now my question is where are the limits?"

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  1. Now my question is where are the limits? by stratjakt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where'd you last use them?

    I swear, you'd lose your head if it wasn't attached at the shoulders.

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  2. Software developed by trolls? by sulli · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds awful.

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    1. Re:Software developed by trolls? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      almost as bad as posts by trolls

  3. Re:What about Apple's strategy? by ArsonSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is similar to the open source engine stratigy of the few game companys that are open sourcing game engines. let the backend be maintained by the community and keep the graphics and sound files as something you have to buy.

    but then again, MacOS X is about like a video game anyway :)

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