From a7ffbb9ee57513d85b89969835a5c77de6840d80 2014-03-21 01:00:02 From: Bradley M. Kuhn Date: 2014-03-21 01:00:02 Subject: [PATCH] Removed some specific company names from here, particularly because the information is somewhat out of date. --- diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex index 6077b765d1255b577993ff1a312ad9eb86ccb892..720e1c903c2b38f7c5d4c97587b59c60fdbd8a58 100644 --- a/gpl-lgpl.tex +++ b/gpl-lgpl.tex @@ -4238,8 +4238,8 @@ equivalents. Using Free Software in house is certainly helpful, but a thriving market for Free Software-oriented business models also exists. There is the traditional model of selling copies of Free Software distributions. -Many companies, including IBM and Red Hat, make substantial revenue -from this model. IBM primarily chooses this model because they have +Many companies make substantial revenue +from this model. Some choose this model because they have found that for higher-end hardware, the cost of the profit made from proprietary software licensing fees is negligible. The real profit is in the hardware, but it is essential that software be stable, reliable @@ -4248,7 +4248,7 @@ it. Free Software, and GPL'd software in particular (because IBM can be assured that proprietary versions of the same software will not exists to compete on their hardware) is the right choice. -Red Hat has actually found that a ``convenience fee'' for Free Software, +For example, charging a ``convenience fee'' for Free Software, when set at a reasonable price (around \$60 or so), can produce some profit. Even though Red Hat's system is fully downloadable on their Web site, people still go to local computer stores and buy copies of their @@ -4268,8 +4268,7 @@ for GCC --- mostly consisting of new ports of GCC to different or new, embedded targets. Eventually, Cygnus was so successful that it was purchased by Red Hat where it remains a profitable division. -However, there are very small companies like CodeSourcery, as well as -other medium-sized companies like MontaVista and OpenTV that compete in +However, there are very small companies that compete in this space. Because the code-base is protect by GPL, it creates and demands industry trust. Companies can cooperate on the software and improve it for everyone. Meanwhile, companies who rely on GCC for their @@ -4288,7 +4287,7 @@ discussed earlier in this tutorial, a copyright holder is permitted under copyright law to license a software system under her copyright as many different ways as she likes to as many different parties as she wishes. -Some companies, such as Oracle, use this to their +Some companies use this to their financial advantage with regard to a GPL'd code base. The standard version is available from the company under the terms of the GPL\@. However, parties can purchase separate proprietary software licensing for