[clug] MtM - companies using foss?

Chris Smart chris at kororaa.org
Thu Feb 22 12:09:43 GMT 2007


Brad Hards wrote:
> On Thursday 22 February 2007 12:20, Rainer Klein wrote:
>   
>>   QT:
>>         Trolltech:
>>                 http://www.trolltech.com/customers
>>     
> Be careful of quoting customers of companies that do dual-licensing (like 
> Trolltech or Mysql A.B.). Their idea of a customer is "people who pay to 
> avoid opening their code". Open source - maybe. But probably not free.
>
> They end up supporting open source, but the customers aren't necessarily FOSS 
> users.
>   
True, good point Brad :)

-c


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