Re: Release plans

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 08:23:36AM +0530, dhruva wrote:
> Hello,

[...]

> IMHO, what we need is real good organized paid support to free software
[...]
> source than what is happening currently. At work (in corporates),
> people are just scared to use free source under GPL! Therefore, they
> keep using more proprietary software and building on top of it. Is it
> possible for FSF/GNU to setup something for paid users? I hope something
> comes out in the near future. Pushing free software in corporates would
> be a big step forward and that will attract larger user (and hopefully
> contributors) base.

Au contraire -- I've managed to convince several customers that GPL is
actually *good for them* (I work on medium-to-small projects):

(1) They actually become *less* dependent on myself. The project lives
on if there are other people besides myself interested in its outcome

(2) If there is another commercial entity interested in this baby, my
customer will eventually reap the benefits of them improving it.

(some customers remain sceptical even in front of those arguments,
alas).

Remember: it's especially the *user* the GPL caters to. 

Note that I favour the GPL on philosophical/ideological grounds. Still
it has a lot to offer to the customers on practical grounds.

Regards
- -- tomás
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