Eric S. Raymond on GPL and BSD licenses. & Microsoft coming to Linux

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Rainer Deyke <rainerd at eldwood.com> wrote:
> Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
>> Sergey Gromov wrote:
>>> Now, how would you make money on free, as in libre, software?  How would
>>> you make a free, single-player RPG and still stay in business?  All you
>>> can under GPL is take payment for distribution, as long as nobody else
>>> starts to distribute it for free.  This means giving your hard work for
>>> free, as in gratis, not business.
>>
>>       Ask RedHat, or any of the increasingly large number of companies
>> that *do* make money on free, as in libre, software. Basically, you
>> make your customers pay for specific developments and
>> customizations. Once the software is released you still get paid for
>> tech support and maintenance.
>
> There's a market for customizations to, or customer support for, single
> player RPGs?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/5/the-zone-of-pure-breakfast/

Apparently so ;)