Re: [GD-General] Pro-IP bill passed the house: User-created

[George W. <ge...@ap...>]

On Tue, 27 May 2008 18:01:24 +0100, "Crosbie Fitch"
<cr...@cy...> wrote:

>> From: George Warner
>> So why should a company spend money on a commission when
>> instead they could just wait and get it for free?
>
> For the same reason the people most interested in specific GPL software
> (enhancements, bug fixes, etc.) don't wait for it to be eventually released
> when more people are more interested. Believe it or not, but big businesses
> do commission the development of GPL software (rather than wait for someone
> else to do it and get it for free).

Ok, so why should a company spend money on a commission for something that
their competition will then get for free?

(note: devil's advacote; I'm anti-DRM... ;-)
-- 
Enjoy,
George Warner,
Schizophrenic Optimization Scientist
Apple Developer Technical Support (DTS)