The Cathedral In The Bazaar?

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?"

Comments

Software developed by trolls?

[sulli]

Sounds awful.

Re:What about Apple's strategy?

[ArsonSmith]

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 :)