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> granting access to it in exchange for money is not a feasible business model. There are other ways, though. Think along the lines of providing support. You could also sign a contract in advance, exchanging a GPL application for a mountain of cold hard cash.

That's great, now all you need to do is find programmers willing to accept n dollars instead of n×100 dollars.



Lots of GPL-based companies, like RedHat and Best Practical, seem to be doing just fine with this.


An order of magnitude more are doing an order of mangnitude even more fine without this.


By that logic, we could say, "it's a poor idea to hire sjwright, because some that didn't are making more money than the one that did."

In other words: correlation, causation, no.




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