Yup. If something like the cloud comes along and suddenly an open source
business plan that was working isn't working, that means you'll have to
figure out a way to change your business plan to deal with the changing
sand beneath your feet.
Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com
On 7/3/19 7:17 PM, Bruce Perens via License-discuss wrote:
On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 3:43 PM Christine Hall <christ...@fossforce.com
<mailto:christ...@fossforce.com>> wrote:
It's vendors/developers seeking enterprise customers who want to
continue calling their software open source, but be able to use non
open source restrictions because their business plan doesn't work.
That's correct. And one point I make very clear in my work at OSS
Capital: If all of the Open Source businesses went away tomorrow, Open
Source would be just fine. And it doesn't work the other way around. We
didn't ever promise their business plans would work, and it's not our
job to make them work.
I series-edited 24 books under Open Publication licenses a while back.
23 made a satisfactory income for Prentice Hall. It wouldn't work today,
because of e-readers. Consequences change, and Open Source business
plans might not sustain you.
Thanks
Bruce
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