Alexander Maryanovsky wrote:
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> The solution to your problem is of course to release your software
> under the GPL in the first place and sell it at reasonable prices.
> That or write software that 10th graders can't implement. If you
> intended to make money on such software in the first place, you were
> clearly kidding yourself.
but for hard problems the problem is much worse: just by being a
sophisticated
user of a non-trivial software project you can deduct major portions of the
solutions being used, and perhaps more importantly, the questions asked
in the
original R&D process.
real R&D , i.e. solving problems nobody has solved before, and
projecting on future needs
is much, much harder than following in someones footsteps.
there is real innovation done in the technological world (SW or other) ,
and no,
not all of it is done in the academia or by dedicated volunteers,
much of it is in the industry by people getting paid from investors seeking
to profit on their investments.
as said elsewhere many times, it is desirable to give investors the
opportunity
to profit on their investment, like contributing organs in the body, but
not to enable
them to act like a cancerous-cell, maximizing profit by all means, and
choking society
via monopoles and cartels (which is the situation today)
to summarize: just saying "do real R&D and you will not suffer from
copycats" seems
naive in my oppinion, real R&D will get hit the worst from copycats.
but the situation today is too tilted in the investors' and lawyers' favour.
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