On Monday 18 March 2002 6:54 pm, John Tapsell wrote:
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Hi, Most of the emails I write in regarding fsf I end up saying the wrong things and get flamed - here's another such letter ;)
I have a bit of a problem. I work on many projects, however one of them is fairly big, and would benefit linux a lot. Unfortunately I have university and work etc to worry about, and development would be slow. On a whim, I mentioned the project to some VC's, and it turns out they love it, and are willing to plow serious amounts of money, and give me a team of developers, etc. Being a uni student, I'm obviously very pleased and excited, but if I did this I would have to make it closed source,
Have the VCs explicitly said that?
and indeed actively protect it.
What if you made it time-delayed open source, like Ghostscript? Would they go for that?
Again, the problem is that it would benefit (IMHO) linux a lot,
Even as closed source?