Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)

Randolf Richardson, DevNet SysOp 29 wrote:
> [sNip]
> > For exsample, if I have a product that I built for a customer, I would
> > have to give it to them under the GPL.  But I also have the choice to not
> > give it to them AT ALL.  So, they pay me to get it, and the license is
> > the GPL.  Their other choice, if they didn't pay me, would be to not have
> > it at all.  It's likely that I could sell this same software to multiple
> > entities, because the likelihood of the first company having the time,
> > personel, and motivation to just giving it away on the Internet are very
> > small.
> [sNip]
>
>         In summary, you could be charging them for some very expensive courier
> services, if for which they don't pay then you won't deliver.  =)

Of course a competitor could purchase a copy or get it from a customer
and set up shop right away selling it too.

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