🚀 go-pugleaf

[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to J. Clarke
<nospam@nospam.nospam>],
who wrote in article <3894d87d_2@news3.prserv.net>:
> > Market does not buy source code.  Market buys a product, which has
> > many more components than source code (remember support?).  Make your
> > product better than what "the first person to buy your device driver"
> > can.
> 
> How much do you think it will cost to develop the device driver?  How many
> sites are there that can use it?  What percentage of those sites are going
> to need tech support?  That will tell you how much you have to charge.  Run
> that number through a market survey and see how many of your potential
> customers will pay that amount.
> 
> Now, do the same with a non-GPL version of the driver, and see which looks
> to make more money.

What are you going to imply?  That non-GPL version will be more
profitable?  In many cases this is going to be wrong (especially if
the GPL'ed code will get you most of your way there).

But this is a business decision, which I do not qualify to discuss
(and judging by your remarks *only*, it may be that your point of view
is not that much trustworthy either ;-).

Ilya