Re: What can we learn from MySQL?

Josh Berkus wrote:
> This last lesson was really driven home to me at the Open Source Business
> Convention; managers were slavering all over "dual licensing" as the "new
> model of open source."   When I pointed out that there's another name for
> dual licensing -- "shareware" -- I got some real uncomfortable silences.
> Seems that a lot of companies want the fruits of Open Source without changing
> the way they do business at all.  Big surprise, eh?

Agreed.  I see dual-license as an interim step for companies moving from
close to true open source.

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