Talk:Commercial open-source software

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Hi, re copyright tag, I created this new page with text from the GFDL lincesed wiki freeopensourcesoftware.org for which I'm the owner and primary maintainer. I will remove the tag. Reliablesources 21:57, 24 January 2009 (UTC) 21:57, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

An attribution tag has been added to the bottom of the article. Somno (talk) 03:09, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Undo Business Model changes

Hi, I think the 4 Feb updates were well intentioned, but muddied the water a bit. I undid them because they confused the software with the business model, which as Richard Stallman has been explaining since the beginning is the wrong view. Whether you sell FOSS in binary has nothing to do with the issue, the question is does the software license contain wording that allows the source to be available, modified, and redistributed without restricting your rights to do whatever you want with it in the future, including sell it yourself if you want. FOSS has been sold since it's creation. It remains FOSS. The organizations that use it may or may not be commercial.

Specifically, the 4 Feb update changed that COSS contains elements of FOSS, to COSS "can be sold as" FOSS, which is the opposite of the intent of the term and the article.

Also, the update added the term "commercial FOSS", which is a new term and the opposite direction from the intent to simplify, and mistakes the software as an object with how it might be used. Reliablesources 00:28, 14 February 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reliablesources (talk • contribs)

Ok, so COSS is not a synonym of commersial FOSS and not at all free software! I think the issue must still be clarified. At least a clear definition is needed.

I do not know what this article is about, other than it's title, which suggests it is about commersial OSS software and then business models would indeed be relevant. I was suprised when the article was moved to the licenses category, but that seems to be in line with what the authors think about the article. I will wait and see.

--LPfi (talk) 11:10, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Probably should merge this with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open_source_applications

Hi. I've been the main contributor to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open_source_applications and I agree that this should be merged with that. Although the goals of the pages are a little bit different, they can be easily accommodated by dividing discussion into sections, along these lines:

 * licensing
 * business models
 * community management
 * list of commercialized projects (and vendors)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davodavo (talk • contribs) 14:08, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]