On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 09:49, Roland wrote:
At 08:19 AM 2/15/02 -0600, Jeremy White wrote:
Several people have asked me to clarify my original post.
I just don't understand one thing: How does your company expect to make money once WINE is
xGPLed? If all your
code has to be contributed back, why should I buy it from
your company?
Well, for one, we have a proprietary product that links toWine; we would continue to sell that.
For another, we would continue to sell services to organizationswho wish to use Wine, but can't because it isn't complete enough.
And finally, we would sell services to organizations that needto depend on Wine, but cannot do so without the assurance of qualified support to back up that dependence.
So you have answered the first question. CodeWeavers might survive. Good for you.
But the second more important question was (in my words): Why should I buy a Wine distribution from you?
If you are forced to contribute back everything I can just do:
cvs update ; ./configure ; make install
What I and other have been trying to say is that some business models like consulting business makes sense with a LGPL:ed Wine but others like Transgaming:s might not. Read what Gavriel wrote in his first(?) reply again.