Selling Open Source Source Code - Fortune [possible satire]

codesciencejust stumbled across another question. is there an open-source license that prevent anyone from making money off my code?
rindolfcodescience: no there isn't.
rindolfcodescience: it stands against the open source definition.
sstacodescience: that would violate the spirit of what most people understand "open source" to mean
rindolfcodescience: people can sell copies of open source software or services related to it.
codesciencehmmm, i understand
rindolfcodescience: see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
sstaI can legally sell you this copy of the Linux kernel...I can charge whatever you are willing to pay. Nothing in the license prevents this
rindolfssta: will you sell it to me for 5,000 USD?
rindolf;-)
sstarindolf: sure
rindolfssta: how about for 3,000 USD?
sstarindolf: tell you what, for $10,000 I'll throw in a free copy of FreeBSD
rindolfssta: wow, sounds like a good deal.
sstarindolf: hmm, 3000 is a bit low, I don't think I could go that cheap
rindolfssta: heh.
rindolfssta: how much are you selling the source code of Apache 2.4 for?
sstarindolf: oh, you can have that for free
rindolfssta: really?
rindolfSucker!
sstarindolf: sure...but the build scripts you have to pay for
rindolfssta: OK.
rindolfssta: would you be willing to exchange the source of the Linux kernel for three copies of jQuery? I will even throw in a few free Dojo plugins.
rindolfssta: he already told us.
sstarindolf: hmm, not sure I want jQuery
sstarindolf: would you happen to have code for a halfway decent RDBMS? I think I could swap for that
rindolfssta: I have the source code for MySQL. Not sure if it's half-decent.
codesciencei run a mysql server. runs good enough for me
sstarindolf: I use MySQL in production quite a lot. It has its flaws, but my use cases never seem to hit them
rindolfssta: OK.
rindolfssta: so will you exchange its source code for the Linux kernel?
sstarindolf: sure
rindolfssta: sounds good.
rindolfssta: you can find the source code of MySQL here - http://www.mysql.com/
sstarindolf: you can get the Linux source from kernel.org
rindolfssta: thanks.
Channel##programming
NetworkFreenode
TaglinePremium price for free (in either meaning) software.
Published2012-09-16