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Re: Blocking Gmail ads



On 15/05/2008, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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> On 05/15/08 19:29, Luke S Crawford wrote:
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> > paid lots of money to write open-source software.    Think of how much
>  > great software we'd get paid to write if VC started funding startups
>  > that wrote and sold dual-licensed GPL software on the "It's free if you
>  > like the GPL, but if you want another license that costs money" model?
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> Isn't that MySQL?
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Or Qt. Actually, I think I rather like that model. If you want our
code, you have to give back the modifications you do to it, or you
have to give us money with which we can write more free code.

Nobody takes without giving back. Seems fair to me.

- Jordi G. H.


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