[consulting] Is this list dead?

[Michael Haggerty]

Interesting perspective. 

While I differ on the effect of market forces on development (from the
standpoint that truly innovative products are very difficult to 'clone'), I
agree that entering a market by building it yourself is not a terribly high
hurdle. And yes, he's planning to release this as a hosted service, so there
are not GPL issues to worry about.

For the sake of argument, would you consider a theme to be a module under
this interpretation of the GPL? If not, why?

Thank you,
Michael Haggerty
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boris Mann [mailto:boris at bryght.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:25 AM
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> Subject: Re: [consulting] Is this list dead?
> 
> If it's a hosted service, he can do whatever he wants.
> 
> If the modules are open source, but require an upstream service to
> connect to in order to function, that's another way to protect a
> business model (but someone could still reverse engineer the upstream
> service and build that).
> 
> Getting into the market by having to build something yourself is not
> particularly difficult. All software, especially when visible to
> interact with, can likely be cloned pretty easily. It's all just time
> and money and if the market is attractive enough...it will happen.
> 
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