Does dual licensing threaten free software?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 27, 2006 7:54 AM EDT
Linux Journal; By Glyn Moody
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After the dotcom doldrums of the past five years, there is a new wind blowing through the world of commercial software. It's open source, but not as we know it. The first-generation start-ups like LinuxCare, TurboLinux and even Red Hat, were essentially service companies. Today, an increasingly-favored approach is to employ dual licensing to create two revenue streams: one based on providing services for free software and the other through traditional commercial licenses to products that are generally based on the free software version.

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