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[Discuss] Profiting from GPL software




El 10/11/15 a las 12:03, Steve Litt escribi?:
> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:40:52 -0500
> Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> > I did not say you can't try to charge money for it. I said that you 
>> > can't make a profit from trying to sell it. Again I ask: what is 
>> > dishonest about this statement?
> Nothing that I see. I reached the same conclusion more than a decade
> ago. After you sell your first copy, you're competing against zero cost
> copies of your product.

If you are the original author, what about doing GPL but releasing the
sources after doing some profit?

Best,

Julian

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