Re: Sound Cards and OS/2 (Creative PCI 128?)

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From: Richard Steiner
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00

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Here in comp.os.os2.utilities, "J. Clarke" <nospam@nospam.nospam>
spake unto us, saying:

>So if you want to sell your device driver commercially, and it contains
>portions of code that are GPL protected, then the first person to buy
>your device driver can then give it away gratis and what happens to your
>market?

Dishonest people will distribute the drivers anyway regardless of the
availability of the source.

If you make it clear that there is some clear benefit to registering
the software (bug fixes not othrewise released publically, or some
other form of support), then you'll still have a clientele who will be
willing to pay for the software.

BTW, some of us would be more likely to pay for it simply BECAUSE it's
released as an open source product.

-- 
   -Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@visi.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
     OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
      + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
                      But I DID read the manual...

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From: rsteiner@visi.com (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2 (Creative PCI 128?)
Date: 2000/01/31
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