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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL advocacy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:13:19 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

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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