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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] open source non commercial license
  • Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:36:51 -0800

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 15:52 +0000, Emerson Clarke wrote:
> I have been thinking about this for many years,

So you've been incurring huge opportunity costs while you sit on this
code for fear that someone else will make money.

> and sometimes i think
> the only way to achieve my goal is to just give it away and not worry
> about the commercial use.

You've got it.

As Cory Doctorow says, 99.9% of those who haven't paid you have never
heard of you. Because you haven't released your code nobody knows about
it and you aren't in demand as a famous C++ guru.

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http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:Mike_Linksvayer





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