Software w/ Source for Sale?

frambooz asks: "As the GNU public license (amongst others) describes, you can make software that is free (as in freedom), but you don't have to make it *free* (as in free beer). I'm wondering if industry officials are aware of this fact, however. Do you know of any software packages that are Open Source, but still require you to purchase them? Did you ever work on such a project as a programmer yourself? If so, how did the development differ from a free(dom)/free(beer) Open Source application?"

Comments

Re:Forgive my ignorance, but how?

[Elwood P Dowd]

It's "bear with me", not "bare with me".

P.S. I put the punctuation outside the quotations intentionally.

Of course not.

[leonbrooks]

You wouldn't be able to squeeze past the Wikipedia to use the facility, and finding a nail that big would be interesting. Finding a piece of the shithouse structure that would take a nail that big would be even more interesting.

Besides which, it's dynamic. Pretty soon you wouldn't be able to find the shithouse under all of the updates.