On Mon, 15 Feb 2016, Nathann Cohen wrote:
I could put up my own company, buy servers, set up Sage and sell
accounts. IIRC I could even modify the code and sell accounts to Sage
server with some extra functionality.
Indeed, you can. And you will also stop contributing to Sage to pursue
your own individual interest and work on what can earn you money,
hoping that those who stay behind will ensure the maintenance and
improvements.
But that is how open source works. Same applies to, for example, Apache.
So, what stops me (or William or whoever) doing that? I should integrate
my own modifications to every new version of Sage. After several
Sage versions and many own additions it would propably be quite tricky. So
best business plan could well be using official version, and maybe
sometimes doing some own additions available to all.
* * *
An open source developer might be a jew making a draw program. An open
source user might be a neo-nazi drawing swastikas. Any open source
developer must accept this.
--
Jori Mäntysalo
