Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

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"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote in message 
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> Now I would not put it past you to try to set up a business centered
> around this purportive loophole.  But nobody in his right mind would
> care to do important business with you anyway.  You come across as far
> too willing to take unnecessary risks.  Your compulsive desire to prove
> yourself clever and the rest of the world stupid is simply too dangerous
> in a business partner.
Very few have ever succeeded in any business centered around open source 
software.  Granted that many businesses use open source software as a part 
of their product offering, they only use it where there is no advantage to 
be obtained in offering anything proprietary.  There is nothing in the open 
source world to differentiate it successfully on a commercial basis.  Open 
source software is much like the forks used within a successful steak house. 
They are absolutely necessary since almost no one would be willing to have 
to eat with their fingers, but no one patronizes the establishment due to 
the reliability of the business's forks.  They go for the sizzle.

The GPL suffers on occasion because they periodically insist that the steak 
house proprietor acknowledge the source of the forks and must feature some 
accolade prominently in the house menu.